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Surgical instruments 'not fairly traded'

Sweatshop conditions of Pakistani factories have led to unease over medical goods.

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Hopkin, M. Surgical instruments 'not fairly traded'. Nature (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/news060724-13

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