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Questions arise over diabetes drug recall


Questions arise over diabetes drug recall
14:30 | 10/03/2021
Following serious warnings among health agencies about possible cancer risks caused by the use of diabetes drug metformin, domestic and international pharmaceutical firms are being questioned over their code of ethics and being urged to take action in order to protect people’s health.
“Worried and scared” were the first emotions mentioned by Mai Nguyen, a 54-year-old woman living in the Linh Dam residential area in Hanoi, when she heard that a batch of metformin tablets had been recalled in the United States because they contain high levels of cancer-causing contaminant N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) – and Vietnamese authorities were following suit with enquiries into batches in this country. ....

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