The short version
Only one company currently supplies this market — there is no backup if it stumbles. The price has fallen 49% in a year, to $2.00 per unit — and generics that get this cheap tend to get abandoned rather than defended. One of its named manufacturing plants, Chartwell Pharmaceuticals Congers, LLC., failed FDA inspectionwithin the last two years — the agency’s most serious outcome. Put together: worth watching — several of the pressures that precede supply trouble are present at once.
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