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68 tonnes of imported salbutamol refused

by VTV428 October 2015 Last updated at 18:22 PM

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VTV.vn - The Vietnam Food Safety Administration Director Nguyen Thanh Phong confirmed in an interview on Tuesday that the Ministry of Health had not imported 68 tonnes of metric salbutamol.

Vietnam’s pharmaceutical and healthcare industries have only imported 3.5 tonnes of salbutamol since the beginning of this year and only used it in medical treatments to relieve asthma, bronchitis, and similar breathing problems. The director also said that further investigations were needed to find out if the chemical was being used illegally in animal feed production.