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| HiYaDel@netscape.net (Del) wrote:
>My main concern from alldaychemist was the brand name, Wagra, which I
>had never heard of before, rather than Penagra, which previous
>customers had reported having received.
While sticking with the major Indian Pharmas is better than noname stuff,
consider the following story from Reuters today:
[Trimmed to remove non-relevant material]
India's Ranbaxy Pulls All AIDS Drugs from WHO List
Tue 9 November, 2004 17:08
By Richard Waddington
GENEVA (Reuters) - Indian firm Ranbaxy took all its anti-AIDS drugs off the
U.N.'s approved list, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, dealing a
blow to efforts to make cheaper medicines more widely available for the
scrounge.
The United Nation's health agency said the company took the step voluntarily
after discovering "discrepancies" in tests done to show the antiretrovirals were
equivalent to brand-name drugs.
In August, the agency dropped another three Ranbaxy drugs after finding that the
independent laboratory used by the company to verify their equivalence to
patented drugs did not meet international standards.
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