About 380 employees work at the Escientia Advanced Sciences site, which also manufactures intermediate chemicals. A district leader told the news outlet a chemical reactor did not cause the fire; officials suspect it was an electricity-related fire.
The plant, which is on India’s eastern coast in the Andhra Pradesh state, is one of several API facilities based in India that supply to the United States. It is unclear whether the event will cause domestic drug shortages.
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