OTC Sanitizer Contaminations Drop In US As Auxiliary Manufacturers Stop Production
Executive Summary
"Fewer people are manufacturing the products ... That seems to be a sort of a natural reaction to I think the decreased consumer demand," says Donald Ashley, compliance chief in FDA’s drug center.
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