Controversy over belated ban of mediator for sale

Controversy over belated ban of mediator for sale

Review of the first alerts concerning the Mediator, whose late withdrawal from the French market is denounced. Withdrawn from sales in the United States in 1997, it is prohibited in France only from 2009. Since the laboratory that manufactures the mediator is French, the health authorities are suspected of having delayed reacting. Interview with Gérard BAPT, PS member for Haute-Garonne, questioning the late decision, as for Distilbène, to withdraw the drug from the market; by Charles JOSEPH-OUDIN, lawyer for the victims, who denounces this public health scandal, and Jean MARIMBERT, Director General of the AFSSAPS, denouncing the lack of opportunities at the time to do the necessary studies.

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File : Mediator scandal

Publication date : 16 November 2010