US FDA Balances Urgent Need For Platinum Chemotherapies Against Intas Plant’s Quality Failures
Executive Summary
As politicians demand help for cancer-ridden constituents, the agency allows Indian plant that flunked inspection to resume exporting batches of cisplatin and carboplatin to the US, but only after passing independent 45-day batch certification reviews.
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