Drugmakers ask KFDA to allow foreign donation of blacklisted medicines to be scrapped

Korean pharmaceutical companies have called on the Korea Food and Drug Administration to permit the donation of about 1,000 drugs that are confirmed to have used talc or talcum powders with asbestos and ordered to be scrapped, to foreign counties such as Africa.

"We don't want our products scrapped that way, even though it has yet to be proven whether our products contain the contaminated ta...