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drug_recall drug_companyDrug manufacturer Hoffman-La Roche (called Roche in the US) has over 65,000 employees and offices in 150 countries around the world. The company has numerous laboratory and testing alliances and owns a majority share of the biotech firms Genentech and Chugai Pharma.
Hoffman-La Roche is based in Nutley, New Jersey in the United States and is the specific prescription drug component of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd (Roche Group). The Roche Group is a health care related international corporation that develops pharmaceuticals and other medically related products for use worldwide.
Roche has resisted merger offers, most notably from competitor Novartis, also Swiss, who bought almost a third share of Roche in 2001.
In 2005 worldwide officials criticized Roche''s handling of its “avian flu” drug Tamiflu . Faulty batches were made due to negligent testing procedures and were later disposed. There was a massive outcry to Roche from worldwide governments to produce more avian flu vaccine or they would start breaking Roche''s patent and begin making Tamiflu generically. Some governments, such as the US, are taking legal action against the company.
In the 1970s Roche was implicated in a vitamin price fixing scandal in Europe where the company inflated consumer costs of vitamins in collusion with other drug making rivals. The case was the result of a Roche employee, Stanley Adams, who had handed documents over to European officials. Roche then prosecuted Adams and he was jailed for a long prison term due to Swiss laws about company whistle-blowers. Twenty years after the scandal, the US and EU regulators fined Roche for over $500 million for the same price-fixing scandal practices .
Roche is also the target of several human rights campaigns and some government officials who claim that the company deliberately withheld and overpriced AIDS drugs in Africa. The controversy in the AIDS/Africa scandal also included allegations that the company refused to allow cheaper, generic versions of their AIDS drugs to be made.
Roche is the maker of the drug Accutane (Isotretinoin), a powerful acne fighting medication . Accutane has been linked to causing serious birth defects in children born to mothers on the drug. Accutane has also been linked to other severe side effects including depression and suicide. The FDA instituted a new program beginning in December of 2005 in order to promote greater awareness about the potential side effects of Roche''s Accutane.
Roche is also the manufacturer of the drug Lariam ( Mefloquine), an anti-malarial prescription medication . Larium is linked to severe psychotic episodes, panic attacks, convulsions, epilepsy, headaches, hallucinations, paranoia, suicide attempts and homicidal rage.
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