Advert - Voluntary admission by Sanofi

• Date posted
  01 May 2015
• Sanction
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• Case number/s
  AUTH/2736/9/14 - Voluntary admission by Sanofi

Sanofi voluntarily admitted its failure to disclose and document its interactions with numerous patient organisations, Sanofi was ruled in breach of the following clauses of the Code:

Clause 2 - Bringing discredit upon, and reducing confidence in, the pharmaceutical industry.

Clause 9.1 - Failing to maintain high standards.

Clause 14.3 - Failing to certify.

Clause 23.3 - Failing to have written agreements with patient organisations (Second 2012 Edition of the Code).

Clause 23.7 - Failing to make publicly available a complete and accurate list of patient organisations to which it provided support (Second 2012 Edition of the Code).

Clause 23.8 - Failing to make publicly available a complete and accurate list of patient organisations it had engaged to provide significant, contracted services (Second 2012 Edition of the Code).

Clause 24.3 - Failing to have written agreements with patient organisations (2014 Code).

The Appeal Board was extremely concerned about the breadth and scale of the failings and it publicly reprimanded Sanofi.