No growth of fungus in Europharm drugs
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     A spokesman for the Department of Health said today (March 16) that laboratory analysis of the last batch of a total of 138 samples of pharmaceutical product manufactured by Europharm had indicated no growth of fungus in the products.

     The Department of Health hotline 2125 1122 has so far received more than 5,000 public enquiries concerning Europharm’s products. The operation hours of the hotline will be adjusted to 9am to 5pm with effect from today.

Ends/Monday, March 16, 2009
Issued at HKT 15:29

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