Kobayashi Pharma shareholders' meeting in Osaka

A Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. shareholder (R) speaks to reporters ahead of the company's annual shareholders' meeting in the western Japan city of Osaka on March 28, 2024. The company said it has confirmed two more deaths linked to the consumption of its red yeast rice dietary supplements which had already been implicated in two other deaths from kidney-related conditions and over 100 hospitalizations.

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