Indian Labs Deleted Drug Test Results, Documents Show
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In a lab in an Indian village during the height of monsoon season in 2011, a technician hit a delete button -- a keystroke that would have consequences three years later.
The quality-control employee of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. had run high-powered chemical analyses on a drug sample to check for impurities that day. A certain level of impurity means the whole batch is supposed to be thrown out.