TOKYO -- Pham Tran, a 43-year-old Vietnamese who runs a trading company in Osaka, was busy responding to inquiries from her customers in Vietnam after the health issue of "red yeast rice" dietary supplements surfaced in Japan last month.
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Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's red yeast rice supplement (Photo by Koji Uema)
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