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Laura Fleischmann

This is how dependent Germany is on Chinese medicines

Whether it's painkillers, antibiotics, or diabetes medication, German pharmacies can hardly do without medicines made in China.

Many colourful pills and powders come off the production line in China every day and later end up in German stomachs. Three-quarters (76 per cent) of all active ingredients for antibiotics imported to Germany now come from China, according to areportby the pharmaceutical association Pro Generika e. V.

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