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Bangladesh Aushad Shilpa Samity (the Association of Pharmaceutical Industries)
to the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the Ministry of Industries in June 1981.
The petition was sent in the name of individual member companies, including
25 of the largest nationally-owned manufacturers and all the foreign-controlled
producers. (l48) The covering letter dated 22 June 1981 stressed that the issues
raised in the petition (on drug registration, production and price controls) were
all inter-linked and the Association stated that "none of the issues is separable
for solution i