China’s market regulator fines two pharmas, confiscates revenue for monopolizing APIs

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Jul 06, 2023

China’s market regulator fines two pharmas, confiscates revenue for monopolizing APIs

Chi­na’s mar­ket reg­u­la­tor, the State Ad­min­is­tra­tion for Mar­ket

Chi­na's mar­ket reg­u­la­tor, the State Ad­min­is­tra­tion for Mar­ket Reg­u­la­tion, an­nounced on Sun­day that it fined and con­fis­cat­ed rev­enue from two phar­ma com­pa­nies for what it called a mo­nop­o­lis­tic deal.

Grand Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal was fined $19.68 mil­lion (139.3 mil­lion yuan) and the reg­u­la­tor con­fis­cat­ed $21 mil­lion (149 mil­lion yuan) of what it called "il­le­gal rev­enue" for en­ter­ing in­to a mo­nop­oly with Wuhan Heal­care Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals over two drugs and their ac­tive phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal in­gre­di­ents (APIs): nor­ep­i­neph­rine bitar­trate and ep­i­neph­rine.

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