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Colombian Market Facing Regulatory Chaos

May 2006 | Legal News

According to multinational drugmakers, around 10,000 medicines in Colombia face the possibility of withdrawal, due to a wave of expired registrations. Colombian registrations last 10 years, but most were originally filed when the national drug regulator, INVIMA, was created in 1995.

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