Word: anticholesterol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the market for reasons of safety in the last three years - but they are usually the kind that raise a storm. Five months ago, Richardson-Merrell of New York pleaded no contest to criminal charges that it had concealed information about the harmful side effects of MER/29, an anticholesterol drug; it thereupon was hit with an $80,000 fine and a rash of suits by users of the drug. The three-year congressional investigation of the industry by the late Senator Estes Kefauver and the scandal of thalidomide caused birth defects have led Congress to give the Food...