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. 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. Roche in the McSpotlight Roche Holdings AG Grenzacherstr.
Lawyers claim that the companies failed to warn doctors of the risk of dependency .
3,000 claims had been made by 1991. Roche was listed by Multinational Monitor magazine as one of the ten worst companies of 1991 for its marketing of its Versed sedative. According to internal company documents released in 1991, Roche ignored early warnings from its research division that its Versed sedative could cause deadly side effects if it was sold in a highly concentrated form. However, Versed was marketed in this form for two years and was linked to about 80 deaths and many more near fatalities . The company allegedly hoped that Versed would replace Valium when its patent expired, but Versed is 4-6 times as potent.