Dr. Widukind Lens presents the case of malformed babies and blames Thalidomide. His judgment is considered exaggerated by most. But then the poor documentation provided by the supplier leads the American FDA to ban the drug from marketing in the US. Then Lenz demonstrates the correlation between phocomelic babies and the drug. Between 1960 and 1961, at least 20,000 phocomelic babies were born, 8,000 of them in Europe. The country most affected is Germany. It later turns out that the drug had never been tested on pregnant women and its effects on the fetus were subsequently monitored. Grunenthal, which still exists in 2015, never paid the penalty. Only in 2007 did the heir of the then owners apologize to the victims. Today, it is mandatory to test any new drug during pregnancy, first on animals and then on humans.
