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(US Pharmacopeia) With counterfeit and adulterated medicines posing an increasing risk to patients in the United States and worldwide, the US Pharmacopeial Convention today announces new standards for two widely used drug products that have been involved in episodes of adulteration resulting in patient deaths.

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