Healthy Skepticism Library item: 20467

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Publication type: Journal Article

Durand de Bousingen D
Growth-hormone CJD scandal rocks France
The Lancet 1997 Jan 18; 349:(9046):189
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2805%2960939-7/fulltext#article_upsell

Abstract:

Despite a total ban on the therapeutic use of growth hormone from human cadavers in June, 1985, the Central Pharmacy of the Paris Hospital Union continued to deliver 20 000 ampoules of the product until February, 1986, to avoid the losses that would have resulted from the destruction of the FFr5·5-million stock. The story was revealed by the weekly magazine ľExpress on Jan 9, but has subsequently been confirmend by Marie-Odile Bertella Geffroy, the judge who has presided over investigations into u …