International drug trial practices will be reviewedFrance will liaise with the European Commission and the European Medicines Agency to improve trial practices at aninternational level, she said. Portuguese drugmaker Bial and French laboratory Biotrial are at fault "on several counts" for a fatal drug trial that left one person dead and five others hospitalized in January, French Health Minister Marisol Touraine said on Monday. On Jan. 21, U.S. company Johnson & Johnson said it had suspended international trials of a drug similar to the oneexperimented by Bial. The victims were given the experimental drug made by Portugal's Bial in an initial phase 1 stage at a privatefacility in Rennes, Brittany, run by France's Biotrial. Dosage issues"Inspectors consider, however, that Bial and Biotrial are responsible on several counts; regarding the dosage prescribed (...) and the time taken to alert authorities," she said.

Source: CBC News May 23, 2016 07:48 UTC