Astellas and Sunovion shamed for payments
The latest companies to breach the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) code of practice have been named and shamed.
Japanese pharma company Astellas (TYO: 4503) and Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Japan's Sumitomo Dainippon (TYO: 4506), are both castigated for payments that they made, while Specialty UK pharma company Shield Therapeutics (LSE: STX) is also named as a wrongdoer.
Astellas’ breach goes back as far as 2010 and relates to a payment made to a hospital as a medical educational good or service, which did not meet the requirements of the code as it was inappropriately linked to the use of the immunosuppressive drug Advagraf (tacrolimus).
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