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Johnson & Johnson business and ASP Japan raided over suspected endoscope-detergent violation

By Toko Sekiguchi ( December 13, 2022, 07:08 GMT | Insight) -- Johnson & Johnson’s Japanese business and medical device seller ASP Japan have been raided by the country’s antitrust regulator over suspicions that they tied the use of a disinfectant to the national sales of endoscope sterilizers, MLex has learned. Johnson & Johnson is suspected of tying the use of its endoscope disinfectant detergents to the cleaning devices manufactured by medical instrument maker Amano, before it sold the business to ASP Japan in 2019.Johnson & Johnson’s Japanese business and medical device seller ASP Japan have been raided by the country’s antitrust regulator over suspicions that they tied the use of a disinfectant to the national sales of endoscope sterilizers, MLex has learned....

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