# \[e-drug\] French drug firm pleads guilty (cont'd) **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [October 23, 2001, 6:34pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-french-drug-firm-pleads-guilty-contd/12773 "2001-10-23T18:34:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e68b1a/32.png) [@lo1](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/lo1)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 6:34pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-french-drug-firm-pleads-guilty-contd/12773/1 "2001-10-23T18:34:34Z")
E-drug: French drug firm pleads guilty (cont'd) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear friends, Cefaclor made in Romania? This sounds embarrassingly familiar. The only possible source is the former state-run plant of "Antibiotica" in Iasi near the Moldovian border. When I was a EU/Phare consultant for the "reconstruction of the pharmaceutical sector in Romania" in 1999-2000, the management of Antibiotica steadfastly refused to cooperate with the National Drug Policy programme. Because they produced many sophisticated drugs which were not needed in this nearly bankrupt country I recommended to close down most production facilities and let the manufacturer restrict his activities to penicillin and derivatives; there was already a huge problem with MSRA so we warned against the unbridled use of cephalosporins. Several pharmacy professors from Iasi University were members of our group, and from them I heard the most horrifying stories about Antibiotica; rats running around in the warehouses, raw materials lying around on the premises in the sun, with fluid leaking from the packaging material, etc. We requested a GMP inspection but were told that the factory had received a GMP certificate from the Drug Agency in Bucharest, and that a visit was not opportune. I do not know how the situation is at present, but the issue should be taken up by the EMEA if Romania wants to become a honest member of the EU. Best wishes, Dr.L.Offerhaus Koedijklaan 1a 1406 KW Bussum The Netherlands Phone +31-35-6923288 Fax +31-35-6923277 (number changed since 1.11.01) E-mail: lo@euronet.nl -- Send mail for the `E-Drug' conference to `e-drug@usa.healthnet.org'. Information and archive [http://satellife.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html](http://satellife.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html) Mail administrative requests to `majordomo@usa.healthnet.org'. For additional assistance, send mail to: `owner-e-drug@usa.healthnet.org'.