2023-11-23 12:05:28
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Jean-Baptiste Talmont
written on November 23, 2023 at 1:05 p.m. Article published in newspaper n° 118
Have you noticed ? Everyone has solutions to save France! Solutions yes… as long as they remain far from their daily lives. Often, the greatest defenders of wind turbines only see their blades when they take the TGV, while the apostles of reindustrialization sing its praises behind the thick curtains of apartments in city centers, far from industrial zones. Because those who live alongside them, industrial zones, are another story. And it is the one that we can read in a Le Monde investigation widely relayed by the rest of the press, noting the filing of a complaint against Sanofi by a mother of two children with autism. In the viewfinder, the Sanofi factory in Mourenx, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Classified Seveso, it manufactures Dépakinethis antiepileptic drug considered responsible for fetal malformations and cognitive and motor disorders in children because their mothers were treated during pregnancy.
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And this is the particular fact of this affair: the woman who filed a complaint was never treated with Dépakine. But like passive smokers, she believes she was contaminated by the factory’s release of substances, such as le valproate de sodium which serves as the basis for the antiepileptic drug. How ? Simply by working since 2011 some fifty meters from the Sanofi site. She would therefore have been exposed during her pregnanciesand it would be this exposure which led to the illness of his two children born in 2014 and 2016. Two years before the factory was singled out, in 2018 therefore, for unusual toxic discharges of sodium valproate, but also of bromopropane, a substance considered by the WHO to be “possible carcinogenic”. Which immediately pushed the woman to take a blood test of valproic acid or Depakinemia test which turned out to be positive. In 2022, as part of a judicial investigation launched into these massive releases, Sanofi explained that sodium valproate emissions were not subject to any threshold (you have to dare!). And as soon as there was one, the lab assured Le Parisien/Aujourd’hui en France dated November 20 that it had made every effort to respond. To conclude, and the labs can’t help it, Sanofi reminded, still in Le Parisien, that no study “did not make it possible to highlight a specific risk linked to these emissions “. We’ll let you be the judge of these answers. For his part, the lawyer of the mother who filed the complaint, Me Joseph-Oudin, assures thataround ten complaints for similar matters are being filed.
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