EFPIA Trumpets EU-Wide Solution To Drug Theft After Italian Report
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Europe is largely ignoring drugs theft while focusing on medicines counterfeiting, but a new Italian report could spur stakeholders to unify behind EFPIA's supply chain tracking system.
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