A Japanese drugmaker was ordered Tuesday to suspend its business for 116 days, the longest such order ever imposed on a pharmaceutical company in the country, after systematically making up fictitious production records on nearly 80 percent of its 500 products.The order for Kobayashi Kako Co. will be effective from Wednesday through June 5, said the Fukui prefectural government, which authorizes the generic drug maker in Awara to produce and sell medicines. The company was also found to have skipped preshipment quality tests for some products since the late 1970s and forged results, among o…READ FULL ARTICLE
