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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10317

17 February 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/health
OLAF asked to investigate Medicines Agency over Mediator

Brussels, 16/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 16 February, two Green/EFA MEPs, Eva Joly and Michèle Rivasi, asked the European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF to investigate the European Medicines Agency following the Mediator scandal, an appetite depressant made by pharmaceutical company Servier, that is reported to have killed between 500 and 2,000 people in France alone.

In a press release, the two MEPs explain that in December 2009, a month after the French health product safety...

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