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What's bugging Indian, Chinese medicine companies making crucial heart drug

US inspectors cite Cadila Healthcare and Alkem Laboratories--both makers of valsartan--for quality-control failures.

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Anna Edney | Bloomberg
A pair of drugmakers in India that the U.S. is counting on to produce generic blood-pressure pills after a far-reaching recall have been faulted by regulators for quality-control issues.

Cadila Healthcare Ltd. and Alkem Laboratories Ltd. both won approvals in March from the Food and Drug Administration to make generic versions of valsartan for the U.S. market. Neither company made any of the recalled valsartan, but both companies have recently been cited by agency inspectors for quality-control failures that echo problems at other drugmakers   renewing questions about the safety of some of the world’s most widely prescribed medicines.

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