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US agencies launch FCPA investigations into pharma companies’ monkey-sourcing

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Inotiv and Charles River Laboratories cooperating with investigations into possible violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Pharmaceutical testing company Inotiv faces an investigation into whether its monkey-sourcing practices may have violated the US foreign bribery law.

The SEC has sent Inotiv a request for documents and information relating to the company’s and several subsidiaries’ importation of “non-human primates” from Asia, including whether its practices comply with