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Swiss chemical firms put profits first, study finds

This content was published on Dec 30, 2001 Switzerland’s 20th century pharmaceutical giants – Ciba, Geigy, Sandoz (since merged to form Novartis) and Roche – have traditionally kept tight-lipped about their wartime past. But that changed when the firms were ordered to open their archives to an Independent Commission of Experts (ICE), set up in 1996 to probe Switzerland’s wartime past. The study…