The panacea for cheap drugs

The panacea for cheap drugs
- October 18, 2016
- Kristin Peterson, anthropology, via This Day, Oct. 18, 2016
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An eye-opener, when Nigeria was gasping in speculation to produce cheap drugs, is
the revelation made by a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, Kristin
Peterson, the author of the book, Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative
Life in Nigeria, in an interview with a Nigerian newspaper … said “There are over
80,000 chemical and drug companies in China (some of which are foreign owned) and
national regulatory agencies might inspect 20 or 30 of them per year.”
For the full story, please visit http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/10/18/the-panacea-for-cheap-drugs/.
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