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Health Care & Hospital Law

Jun. 28, 2011

GlaxoSmithKline Settles Substandard Drug Manufacturing Charges

Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline LLC and its now-defunct subsidiary SB Pharmco Puerto Rico Inc. have agreed to pay $40.75 million to resolve state prosecutors' allegations they used substandard drug manufacturing processes.

By Jill Redhage
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline LLC and its now-defunct subsidiary SB Pharmco Puerto Rico Inc. have agreed to pay $40.75 million to resolve state prosecutors' allegations they used substandard drug manufacturing processes in a Puerto Rican facility between 2001 and 2004.

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris filed the case in San Diego County Superior Court on Thursday, and announced the settlement Friday. The ...

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