Child powder scandal in France
In the child powder scandal in France , 103 infants died of arsenic poisoning .
Events
In 1952, the French laboratory Daney from Bordeaux produced and sold a batch of Baumol children's powder that was high in arsenic . As a result, nearly 500 infants and small children became ill with symptoms of intoxication such as paralysis or other health phenomena. 103 of them died as a result of the poisoning.
In the so-called child powder trial in 1959, the pharmaceutical director and co-owner of the Daney laboratory, the pharmacist Jacques Cazenave, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and sentenced to 200,000 anciens francs in damages .
literature
- Annick Le Douget: Enquête sur le scandale de la poudre Baumol (1951–1959), la première catastrophe sanitaire française . Fouesnant 2016, ISBN 978-2-9512892-4-6 .
Web links
- Article in Time Magazine, December 29, 1952
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erwan Chartier-Le Floch: 1952. L'affaire de la poudre Baumol. In: Le Télégramme. October 8, 2017, accessed January 22, 2018 (French).