Thousands of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies that sold a drug withdrawn for possible carcinogens

2024-04-04 12:01:15

The journalist publishes Bea Talegon that the pharmaceutical company Sanofi is about to close an agreement to avoid 4,000 lawsuits filed against her in court United States.

They accuse the pharmaceutical company of its responsibility in cases of cancer appeared after consumption of Zantac medicinea “stomach protector.”

Sanofi denies responsibility and has “vigorously” defended its innocence from the beginning, according to reflects Reutersechoing the statement published by the company.

The best thing is that these 4,000 lawsuits may only be the tip of a huge iceberg: In the State of Delaware there are currently 20,000 complaints still active, where 70,000 individual cases have been filed.

They also hold responsible GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a Pfizer already Boheringer Ingelheim. And that’s it for the news, now we are going to go back to the past when in 2019! In this blog we publish:

Stomach drugs that contain a potentially carcinogenic substance are withdrawn from the market

It turns out that pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline y Novartis They were taking it off the market then. ranitidine medicine. And yes, that’s what you’re thinking, it was about the Zantac. They did it because it was potentially carcinogenic.

It turns out that the United States Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, had announced that it found N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), considered a probably carcinogenic substancein this drug.

NDMA is a well-known environmental contaminant (more popularly as nitrosamina) and is found in water and foods, including meats, dairy products, and vegetables.

Read the entire post, it is worth it. Of course, it is worth asking: How is it possible that if these companies were withdrawing that active ingredient from the market years ago, Sanofi has continued to sell it?

I don’t have an answer, but we’ll try to find out.

If you have or know someone who suffers from this cause consult with us o contact ADAF, the Association of People Affected by Drugs.

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