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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10759

9 January 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 18 / 20
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) health
Michèle Rivasi questions EMA on contraceptive pills

Brussels, 08/01/2013 (Agence Europe) - On 3 January, Michèle Rivasi, the vice-chair of the Greens-EFA Group at the European Parliament, questioned the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on risks of veinous thrombosis complications from the third and fourth generation of contraceptive pills, in response to a complaint filed by France against the pharmaceutical group Bayer.

On 14 December, a young woman lodged a complaint against Bayer as she considered that the third generation pill that she...