Worm Drug Hype
The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency raided a factory that had been manufacturing poor quality ivermectin. To garner support for the use of the anti-parasite drug, Harsen lobbied several government officials. Wishing to keep up, the state-owned enterprises ministry is pushing Indofarma to produce a similar medicine. It seems businesses have been taking advantage of Covid-19.
Hussein Abri Dongoran
July 4, 2021
DOZENS of Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) officers raided a Harsen Laboratories factory in Jalan Raya Bogor, Ciracas, East Jakarta, on Tuesday afternoon, June 29. They checked all corners of the pharmaceutical company’s facility, in search for the ingredients as well as the ivermectin drug under the brand name Ivermax 12, manufactured by Harsen. Ivermectin is a drug used to treat parasitic worms in humans, recently claimed to be effe
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