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Medline Industries Inc.will manufacture enemas, douche and oral saline laxatives for its Curad consumer health products line, with manufacturing and laboratory assets acquired from Perrigo Co. PLC July 23. Mundelein, Ill.-based Medline assumed the lease on Perrigo’s plant in Lake Worth, Fla., which it said it will use for manufacturing Curad and private-label products. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Procter & Gamble Co.alleges in a lawsuit July 20 that oral care products manufacturer Team Technologies Inc. infringes on...

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