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Contract manufacturing can solve all kinds of problems and save all kinds of money, but if things go bad it can bring on a world of hurt. When Boehringer Ingelheim 's Ben Venue plant had to close down two years ago, Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) and the FDA jumped through a series of hoops to keep supplies of J&J's cancer drug Doxil available to doctors.
Those kinds of interruptions come with a real cost and a lawsuit filed by GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) gives an idea of how much. In this case, the London-based company has filed suit in New York against Hospira ($HSP) saying...