Akorn, Inc. has received a $3.5 million purchase order from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide Ca-DTPA and Zn-DTPA. This order represents a partial exercise of a purchase option that was awarded to the company by HHS on December 30, 2005, for the acquisition of as much as an additional one million units of Ca-DTPA and Zn-DTPA by the U.S. Government. The purchase order quantities are intended to provide countermeasures to protect the American military population in ...