Furious patients demand action against Sandoz

Lack of sanctions against Sandoz after the contamination case is a source of great discontent among a group of Dicillin patients. According to authorities, the company has done nothing wrong.
Authorities and citizens met up at the Danish Medicines Agency's facilities at Islands Brygge, Copenhagen. | Photo: Jan Unger
Authorities and citizens met up at the Danish Medicines Agency's facilities at Islands Brygge, Copenhagen. | Photo: Jan Unger
by ulrich quistgaard, translated by kristoffer grønbæk & daniel pedersen

Even though approximately 80,000 Danes have taken contaminated antibiotic Dicillin, the producer of the drug, Sandoz, has made no mistakes, the Danish Medicines Agency made clear at a public meeting Friday where the roughly 80,000 Danes that have been given the contaminated Dicillin could approach authorities regarding their situation.

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