Primodos was the topic of Inside Out Quality, a podcast that explores product failures that have affected lives and companies that could have been avoided.
Primodos, a hormone-based pregnancy test, was given to women between 1959 and 1978. Its development occurred before good laboratory practices (GLP) and before standardised testing for teratogenesis (causing birth defects). There are data and suspicions that it caused birth defects, but more questions remain.
In this episode of Inside Out Quality, host Aaron Harmon explores the story of this in vivo diagnostic with Neil Vargesson, from the University of Aberdeen. Learn another reason for the importance of GLP and why preclinical studies are key to keeping people safe.
Listen to Primodos: Zebrafish, GLP, and Unanswered Questions below
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