France's government pharmaceutical authority has criticized the manufacturer Roger Bellon (a subsidiary of Rhone-Poulenc Rorer) for issuing a televised warning regarding product contamination before informing health care professionals.
The agency says that Bellon's decision to tell the public via television about a cyanide-contaminated flask containing its antibiotic Josacine (josamycin), which has caused a young girl's death, had provoked a panic. The agency itself was alerted late in the day, and had been unable to launch the usual procedure followed in such cases.
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