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Vietnam bans substandard pharmaceutical drugs
13:15, 2014/08/16
The Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) has forbidden the import of 24 various foreign drugs from dozens of companies due to inferior quality.
Most of these pharmaceutical products are produced by Indian enterprises including Umedica Laboratories, Marksans Pharma, Yeva Therapeutics, Medicines Cure, and Medley Pharmaceuticals.
 

 
This is the largest number of foreign drugs have been simultaneously prohibited to be sold on the local market.
The DAV said it is intensifying inspection and drug quality testing before authorizing  drugs to be sold on the market.
On this occasion, the Administration also stopped receiving registration dossiers of the US producer Robinson Pharma due to its extensive quality violations.
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