Find out more Products Contact us Connections Product news Hurry Connect to the website Home MSD Animal HealthHistorical MSD Animal Health MSD Animal Health in France News Merck Animal Health Historical Our values Our research Careers and Jobs History of MSD Animal Health MSD Animal Health was born from the integration into the Merck Group (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) of the Intervet Schering-Plow Animal Health laboratory. MSD Animal Health is today one of the world leaders in animal health, offering a broad and innovative product portfolio for all animal species. The two laboratories have shown quite similar paths over time, highlighting innovation and research for more than fifty years. The Intervet laboratory was born in Boxmeer in the 1940s, on the same site where its world headquarters are still located today. It originates from the Nobilis laboratory, created by food manufacturer Wim Hendrix, which marketed in 1950 the first vaccine against fowl pox. In 1961, Nobilis was bought by KZO (Kninklijke Zwanenberg Organon), then over successive acquisitions, the laboratory expanded its range of products and took the name of Intervet in 1969, it then became, like its human counterpart, the Organon laboratory. , a subsidiary of the AKZO chemical group, which will become AKZO NOBEL. The veterinary division of Schering Plow was, for its part, created in the United States in 1950, in Bloomsfield, New Jersey, within the Schering Laboratory born in 1860. It then marketed prednisone, an anti-inflammatory drug. against ketosis in cattle. In 1971, Schering merged with Plow to become Schering-Plow. In 2007, Schering-Plow bought Organon Biosciences (Organon and Intervet) from the AKZO NOBEL group, which marked the birth of Intervet Schering-Plow Animal Health . In 2009, Merck bought Schering Plow. In order to make the merger process with Schering-Plow possible, Merck sold to sanofi-aventis the 50% of Merial it held in the joint venture with its long-time partner. Intervet then becomes the animal health division of Merck. In 2011, Intervet changed its name to MSD Santé Animale in France. © 2009 Intervet International BV WarningSite mapConfidentiality