It did not make the headlines of the commercial media, and that however dates from 2003!
Today, 59 years old, this whistleblower, veterinarian and pasteur by training, former national expert with the AFSSA (French Food Safety Agency), former Managing Director of AVENTIS-PHARMA (integrated today in the SANOFI-AVENTIS group) was dismissed in 2003 for refusing to endorse certain dubious practices concerning the manufacture of enoxaparin, a heparin used in the manufacture of anti-coagulant drugs (LOVENOX / CLEXANE), the number of which 'annual business amounts to more than 3 billion Euros.
The following : Whistleblower Jacques Poirier explains the secrets of a public health scandal (scientific dossier)
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Et he is not the only one in France, at least for the recognized.