The German company that made anti-morning sickness drug thalidomide has apologised to the thousands of children born without limbs as a result of its use. Harald Stock, chief executive of pharmaceutical company Gruenenthal, said it was "very sorry".
The German manufacturer of anti-morning sickness drug thalidomide has made an apology five decades on to the thousands of children born without limbs as a result of its use.
The apology by the German inventors, pharmaceutical company Gruenenthal is made in a speech given today by its chief executive Harald Stock at the inauguration of a special memorial in Stolberg.
The advance text of the speech, published on the company's main website, refers to a Mr Igel, thought to be Johannes Igel who campaigned for donations towards the "erection or maintenance" of a public memorial in Stolberg commemorating the victims of the thalidomide.
The German company who manufactured anti-morning sickness drug thalidomide will apologise today. Here is the text in full of the speech.
The German company which invented the birth defect pregnancy drug Thalidomide has issued its first apology in 50 years.