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Teva To Stop Manufacturing Propofol

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries will discontinue manufacturing the sedation drug propofol.

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries will discontinue manufacturing the sedation drug propofol. The company received a warning letter from the FDA in December 2009 regarding an inspection that showed problems with the manufacture of propofol at its plant in Irvine, CA. The FDA cited that Teva had failed to test each lot of raw materials used to make propofol for certain toxins. Teva was recently ordered by a Las Vegas court to pay $356 million in punitive damages to a man in Nevada who contracted h...

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