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The outbreak has hobbled Chinese factories that supply India’s vast drug industry with ingredients for antibiotics and vitamins, raising the prospect of global shortages.
U.S. health regulators are watching for potential drug shortages after India restricted the export of some raw pharmaceutical ingredients, a move that could disrupt the industry’s globe-spanning supply chain.
Indian authorities limited the export of a list of pharmaceutical ingredients and drugs made from those ingredients, a further signal of the enormous disruption that the outbreak of the new coronavirus is having on the drug supply chain.
BENGALURU/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India, the world's main supplier of generic drugs, has restricted the export of 26 pharmaceutical ingredients and the medicines made from them, including Paracetamol, a common pain reliever also sold as acetaminophen, as the coronavirus outbreak plays havoc with supply
It comes as the outbreak has kept many Chinese pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturers shut.
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Restrictions covering drugs including paracetamol prompt fears of global shortages
The world's main supplier of generic drugs restricts the export of 26 pharmaceutical ingredients and the medicines made from them, including paracetamol, as the coronavirus outbreak plays havoc with supply chains.