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DODGY DRUG DEAL

Last year we paid a visit with Mad Pride to an art exhibition, sponsored by Pfizer (the biggest pharmaceutical company in the world)

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A rep was seen sneaking drugs to visitors at the exhibition

A free sample of drugs and text about Pfizer's dodgy activities was inserted in every catalogue

"The police have come in and they have made a few busts and arrests and things but you remove one drug dealer and it's replaced by another"

DODGY DRUG DEAL 2004 sees 3 UK cities besieged by Pfizer*

*get in touch with your ideas for a Pfizer action

'Art Works in Mental Health™'Exhibition

Birmingham Museum 13 March-16 May 2004

Edinburgh Talbot Rice Gallery 12 June-10th July 2004

Manchester Urbis Centre 2nd August-28th August 2004

WHAT PFIZER SAYS
We discoverand develop innovative, value-added products that improve the quality of life of people around the world and help them enjoy longer, healthier and more productive lives. The company has three business segments:pharmaceutical, animal health and consumer health care. Our products are available in more than 150 countries.

WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT PFIZER
In 1990, the US Generic Pharmaceutical Industry listed Pfizer as one of the companies accused of fraudulent and deceptive practices for its failure to report severe side effects of its Feldene drug before it obtained US approval.

Shiley Inc marketed a heart valve between 1979 and 1986. Taking only Pfizers' figures, at least 394 of these valves ruptured causing 252 deaths by 1990. Shiley allegedly knew of the valve's faults but continued to market whilst trying to right them. 82,000 of these valve's are implanted world-wide.

The US magazine Multinational Monitor listed Pfizer as one of the ten worst companies in 1988 following this saga. Pfizer has still not directly contacted the valve recipients. In January 1991, a suit was filed against the company in the USA on behalf of 55,000 valve recipients.

Pfizer tests cosmetics and drugs on animals. In 1988 alone, the company used 18,398 'recordable' animals in its experiments. The company also produces antibiotics for the dairy industry.

In 1992, Greenpeace listed a Pfizer plant as one of the ten worst polluters in the South East of England. The plant had breached its discharge consent four times since the beginning of 1991 and also discharged ten chemicals for which it did not have a permit, including organochlorines (see WEN report on Chlorine).

Pfizer was the target of a Greenpeace campaign in 1988 for dumping industrial waste in Eire, and a US group listed Pfizer as one of the top fifteen corporate contributors to global pollution, based on 1987 figures.