French agency head answers questions on Mediator "manslaughter"
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
Dominique Maraninchi, the director general of the French medicines agency, the ANSM, has appeared before judges to answer questions relating to the agency's role in the Mediator drug affair, the agency has confirmed. The judges are investigating whether negligence on the part of the agency contributed to "manslaughter and involuntary injury" caused by the Servier drug between 1995 and 2009.