Topic - Servier Laboratories

The company reportedly invests a little under 25% of its turnover in research and development, which occupies 3,000 of its 20,000 employees worldwide. The company's production sites produced 670 million drug boxes in 2006. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 23, 2019 file photo, Doctor Irene Frachon, who discovered that the drug Mediator could have fatal side effect, speaks to reporters as she arrived at a Paris courthouse. A Paris court will deliver its verdict Monday, March 29, 2021 in a case that grew into one of France’s biggest modern health scandals, ruling whether a French pharmaceutical company is guilty of manslaughter and other charges for selling a diabetes drug blamed for hundreds of deaths. Accused of favoring profits over patients’ lives, Servier Laboratories is facing millions of euros in potential fines and damages after a huge trial involving 6,500 plaintiffs. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

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