Lawyers say a trade group’s new sales and marketing code of ethics for pharmaceutical companies that’s designed to help companies avoid government investigations and prosecutions will trigger extensive corporate governance work on behalf of participating companies.

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), a trade organization for drug makers and research companies, announced a massive overhaul of its ethics code governing companies’ interactions with health care professionals, which will become effective in January 2009.

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