Pfizer, Novartis and Astellas scolded for ABPI code breaches

14 September 2017

A couple of the world’s largest pharma companies have been named and shamed for breaching the Code of Practice of the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries (ABPI).

The UK trade group’s code covers the promotion of medicines for prescribing to health professionals and the provision of information to the public about prescription-only medicines.

As well as pharma giants Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and Novartis (NOVN: VX), divisions of Japanese drug major Astellas Pharma (TYO: 4503) and UK-based Tor Generics have been called out for wrongdoing by the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA), which was established by the ABPI to operate its Code of Practice.

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