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Technology & Science

Dec. 31, 2010

Biotech Faces More Regulation in 2011

Next year, trade groups and lawyers - biotech counsel as well as plaintiffs' attorneys - seek to influence new high-stakes rules, legislative and enforcement actions to their advantage.


By Mandy Jackson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The biotechnology industry claimed victory this year with $1 billion in research-and-development tax credits and better patent protection for certain drugs in the federal health care reform bill.


But it saw some low points too with industry executives facing tough questioning in Congress over drug recalls and hundreds of millions of dollars in fines under increasingly tighter regulations for the biot...

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