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Environmentalists were also critical of Sandoz, Switzerland's second largest chemical company. At a meeting called in Basel to discuss the incident, protesters pelted company officials with dead eels. The firm finally admitted that it had underestimated the risk of such an accident and confirmed that Sandoz officials had decided not to act on some recommendations, made five years earlier by an insurance company, to improve warehouse safety. Company spokesmen insisted, however, that Sandoz had broken no laws in storing the chemicals...
Anger among European officials was fanned further at midweek when Ciba- Geigy, Switzerland's largest chemical company, admitted spilling about 105 gal. of the herbicide Atrazine into the Rhine the night before the Sandoz fire. The discharge of the chemicals, which is forbidden by law, was discovered only after officials tested the river for pollution from the Sandoz accident. While a Swiss water official asserted that the Ciba-Geigy accident did not kill the fish, the disclosure increased demands for stricter laws regulating chemical storage...
Though inconclusive, the French tests prompted the U.S. subsidiary of Sandoz, Ltd., the Swiss-based manufacturer of cyclosporine, to announce that it would soon begin tests of the drug in American AIDS patients. Said Max Link, who heads the subsidiary: "Only well-controlled, long-term investigations will answer the question of whether Sandimmun could play a role in the treatment of AIDS...
...general, the obstacle to using animal organs is that the human body quickly rejects foreign tissue. What gave Leonard Bailey hope of better results was the advent of the wonder-drug cyclosporine. Developed by Sandoz Ltd. in Switzerland, cyclosporine inhibits organ rejection by partly suppressing the immune system. It is considered safer than earlier drugs used for this purpose because it is less likely to destroy the body's ability to fight infection. Since its first use in the U.S. in 1979 it has revolutionized transplant surgery, raising the one-year survival rate of heart recipients from...
...drug companies encourage skepticism among doctors and pharmacists about the quality of some generic products. Sandoz last year ran an ad in the American Druggist magazine for the tranquilizer Mellaril. It showed an elderly woman with an alarmed look on her face. In her hand was a vial that apparently contained a generic imitation of Mellaril. The text implied that a switch to a generic version of Mellaril could cause increased side effects, including symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease. The FDA said that the claims in the ad were false and ordered Sandoz to withdraw...