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Thank you for all your help. Finally it worked !!!

Solution
sed 's/[^ -~]/ /g' file.txt

Apologies. Realised about the code tags just now.
grep '[^ -~]' file.txt | sed 's/[^ -~]//g'
GAVISCON LIQUID PEPPERMINT OT 000022000362700 159588000007979400 50001584182 ...

cat file.txt | grep '[^ -~]' | sed 's/[^ -~]//g' | sed -n 's/[^ -~]/ /pg'

sed: command garbled: s/[^ -~]/ /pg

Running SunOs 5.6. Solaris.

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