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Brazil and India file complaint against EU over seizure of generic drugs

Posted By admin On 24/05/2010 @ 09:25 pm In International News | No Comments

India and Brazil have filed complaints that in 2008 and 2009 EU customs authorities seized consignments of generic drugs on the grounds that the shipments were thought to infringe patent rights. Drugs that were seized included antiretroviral abacavir from India, bought on behalf of UNITAID and destined for Nigeria; olanzapine destined for Peru; losartan destined for Brazil and clopidogrel destined for Colombia.

BMJ 2010; 340: c2672

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