I just bought more allergy tablets and I saw the company name on the strip:
Hetero Healthcare Ltd
I googled and saw it's an Indian company:
- Innovative Pharmaceutical Company in India
Hetero Healthcare Ltd is a leading Innovative Pharmaceutical Company in India, headquartered at Hyderabad. We aim to improve the quality life of the people …
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I knew it couldn’t be the Indian branch of any western company. Imagine if any company in the US called itself Hetero. It would be like advertising they’re homophobic.
I can't imagine why they called themselves this. Maybe they think it means something like all over, for everyone. I bet they’re going by these definitions:
hetero-
prefix
1. different, other
heterochromatic
2. containing atoms of different kinds
heterocyclic
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