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Industry: pharmaceuticals
Penalty Total since 2000: $116,245,163,450
Number of Records: 1,270
Note: The totals include only those entries matched to a parent company. The industry designation is the primary one for the parent's operations overall. The totals are adjusted to account for the fact that each parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.

Top 10 Current Parent Companies	Total Penalty $	Number of Records
Johnson & Johnson	$24,497,162,770	88
Pfizer	$10,948,368,523	98
Merck	$10,710,400,031	89
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	$10,242,576,796	96
GlaxoSmithKline	$9,572,803,406	50
Purdue Pharma	$9,278,372,787	11
AbbVie	$7,560,456,404	84
Takeda Pharmaceutical	$3,987,516,447	32
Endo International	$3,311,990,667	30
Eli Lilly	$2,831,299,676	26

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Company	Current Parent	Primary Offense Type	Year	Agency	Penalty Amount
GNC Holdings Inc.	Harbin Pharmaceutical Group	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2016	FDA	$2,250,000
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	Amryt Pharma	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2017	DOJ_CIVIL	$35,000,000
Schering-Plough Corporation	Merck	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2002	DOJ_CIVIL	$500,000,000
Synthes Inc.	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2010	USAO	$669,800
Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical LLC	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2010	USAO	$6,140,000
Roussel Uclaf S.A.	Sanofi	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2001	USAO	$23,193,600
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Inc.	Dr. Reddy's Laboratories	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2018	DOJ_CIVIL	$5,000,000
DePuy Orthopaedics Inc.	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2014	OR-AG	$4,000,000
Endo Health Solutions Inc. and Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	Endo International	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2016	NY-AG	$200,000
GlaxoSmithKline LLC	GlaxoSmithKline	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2012	MULTI-AG	$90,000,000
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC	GlaxoSmithKline	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2011	MULTI-AG	$40,750,000
Johnson & Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2019	MULTI-AG	$120,000,000
Johnson & Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2017	MULTI-AG	$33,000,000
Johnson & Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2019	WA-AG	$9,900,000
Merck	Merck	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2013	PA-AG	$8,250,000
Pfizer	Pfizer	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2003	MULTI-AG	$6,000,000
Pfizer, Inc.	Pfizer	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2012	OR-AG	$3,340,000
Purdue Pharma	Purdue Pharma	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2015	KY-AG	$24,000,000
Ranbaxy	Sun Pharmaceuticals	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2013	MULTI-AG	(*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $266,729,715
Ranbaxy Laboratories	Sun Pharmaceuticals	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2014	OR-AG	$2,300,000
SB Pharmco Puerto Rico Inc.	GlaxoSmithKline	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2010	MULTI-AG	(*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $163,560,000
Johnson & Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2019	MULTI-AG	$116,860,000
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Division	Pfizer	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2000	FDA	$30,000,000
Pfizer Inc.	Pfizer	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2014	NV-AG	$9,500,000
Johnson & Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2020	WV-AG	$3,900,000
St. Jude Medical Inc.	Abbott Laboratories	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2021	DOJ_CIVIL	$27,000,000
Janssen Pharmaceuticals	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2019	private lawsuit-federal	$387,500,000
Organon USA Inc.	Organon & Co.	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2018	private lawsuit-federal	$100,000,000
Endo International PLC	Endo International	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2017	private lawsuit-federal	$775,000,000
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.	Takeda Pharmaceutical	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2015	private lawsuit-federal	$2,400,000,000
Boehringer Ingelheim International	Boehringer Ingelheim	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2014	private lawsuit-federal	$650,000,000
Endo International PLC	Endo International	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2014	private lawsuit-federal	$830,000,000
Merck	Merck	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2014	private lawsuit-federal	$27,700,000
DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2013	private lawsuit-federal	$2,475,000,000
Pfizer	Pfizer	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2013	private lawsuit-federal	$288,000,000
AstraZeneca	AstraZeneca	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2010	private lawsuit-federal	$198,000,000
GlaxoSmithKline	GlaxoSmithKline	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2010	private lawsuit-federal	$770,000,000
Merck	Merck	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2010	private lawsuit-federal	$41,500,000
GlaxoSmithKline	GlaxoSmithKline	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2009	private lawsuit-federal	$28,000,000
Pfizer	Pfizer	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2008	private lawsuit-federal	$745,000,000
GlaxoSmithKline	GlaxoSmithKline	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2008	private lawsuit-federal	$40,000,000
Merck & Co.	Merck	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2007	private lawsuit-federal	$4,850,000,000
Eli Lilly and Company	Eli Lilly	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2007	private lawsuit-federal	$500,000,000
GlaxoSmithKline	GlaxoSmithKline	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2006	private lawsuit-state	$63,833,148
Johnson & Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2005	private lawsuit-federal	$15,000,000
Eli Lilly and Company	Eli Lilly	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2005	private lawsuit-federal	$690,000,000
Johnson & Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2004	private lawsuit-federal	$90,000,000
Pfizer	Pfizer	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2004	private lawsuit-federal	$750,000,000
Johnson & Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2002	private lawsuit-federal	$45,000,000
American Home Products	Pfizer	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2002	private lawsuit-federal	$3,750,000,000
Johnson and Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2023	CA-AG	$302,000,000
Endo Health Solutions Inc.	Endo International	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2024	DOJ_CIVIL	$464,900,000
EMD Chemicals, Inc.	Merck KGaA (EMD)	economic sanction violation	2007	OFAC	$8,250
Chiron Corporation Ltd	Novartis	economic sanction violation	2004	OFAC	$168,500
DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company	Bristol-Myers Squibb	economic sanction violation	2004	OFAC	$6,600
Fort Dodge Animal Health	Zoetis	economic sanction violation	2004	OFAC	$26,956
ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc	Bausch Health	economic sanction violation	2004	OFAC	$5,500
Hospira Inc.	Pfizer	employment discrimination	2015	OFCCP	$400,000
AstraZeneca	AstraZeneca	employment discrimination	2011	OFCCP	$250,000
Amneal Pharmaceuticals of NY, LLC	Amneal Pharmaceuticals	employment discrimination	2015	OFCCP	$99,000
Novartis Pharmaceuticals	Novartis	employment discrimination	2013	OFCCP	$51,594
Roche Diagnostics Corporation	Roche	employment discrimination	2018	OFCCP	$261,782
Amgen, Inc.	Amgen	employment discrimination	2018	OFCCP	$283,701
Abbott Laboratories	Abbott Laboratories	employment discrimination	2016	private lawsuit-federal	$210,000
Forest Laboratories, Inc.	AbbVie	employment discrimination	2018	private lawsuit-federal	$4,000,000
Medicis Pharmaceutical	Bausch Health	employment discrimination	2016	private lawsuit-federal	$7,150,000
Daiichi Sankyo	Daiichi Sankyo	employment discrimination	2016	private lawsuit-federal	$8,200,000
Mallinckrodt Inc.	Mallinckrodt	employment discrimination	2003	private lawsuit-federal	$650,561
Novartis Corporation and Alcon Laboratories	Novartis	employment discrimination	2016	private lawsuit-federal	$8,000,000
Novartis Corporation	Novartis	employment discrimination	2010	private lawsuit-federal	$175,000,000
Pfizer	Pfizer	employment discrimination	2009	private lawsuit-federal	$1,365,003
Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.	Roche	employment discrimination	2012	private lawsuit-federal	$545,833
Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC	Sanofi	employment discrimination	2010	private lawsuit-federal	$15,360,000
AstraZeneca	AstraZeneca	employment discrimination	2008	private lawsuit-state	$350,000
General Nutrition Corporation	Harbin Pharmaceutical Group	employment discrimination	2019	private lawsuit-federal	$550,187
Merck & Company, Inc.	Merck	employment discrimination	2019	OFCCP	$289,755
Imclone Systems, Inc.	Eli Lilly	employment discrimination	2005	EEOC	$85,000
Merck & Co. Inc.	Merck	employment discrimination	2019	private lawsuit-federal	$6,200,000
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.	IDEXX Laboratories	employment discrimination	2020	OFCCP	$200,000
Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc.	Boehringer Ingelheim	employment discrimination	2020	OFCCP	$379,089
Perrigo Company	Perrigo	employment discrimination	2021	NY-NYCCHR	$20,000
GNC	Harbin Pharmaceutical Group	employment discrimination	2019	NY-NYCCHR	$35,000
AstraZeneca	AstraZeneca	employment discrimination	2021	OFCCP	$560,000
Pfizer Inc.	Pfizer	employment discrimination	2023	OFCCP	$2,500,000
Merck	Merck	environmental violation	2011	EPA	$1,500,000
King Pharmaceuticals LLC	Pfizer	environmental violation	2013	EPA	$2,200,000
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.	Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	environmental violation	2013	EPA	$2,250,000
GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines	GlaxoSmithKline	environmental violation	2014	EPA	$172,900
GlaxoSmithKline LLC	GlaxoSmithKline	environmental violation	2014	EPA	$317,550
Advanced Sterilization Products	Johnson & Johnson	environmental violation	2014	EPA	$136,800
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC	Pfizer	environmental violation	2014	EPA	$728,000
EMD Millipore Corporation	Merck KGaA (EMD)	environmental violation	2013	EPA	$2,681,500
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.	Eli Lilly	environmental violation	2012	EPA	$68,475
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.	Eli Lilly	environmental violation	2011	EPA	$300,000
Bristol-Myers Squibb	Bristol-Myers Squibb	environmental violation	2008	EPA	$3,650,000
Pfizer Inc.	Pfizer	environmental violation	2008	EPA	$975,000
Merck	Merck	environmental violation	2007	EPA	$19,750,000
EMD Millipore Corp.	Merck KGaA (EMD)	environmental violation	2017	EPA	$385,000
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA	Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	environmental violation	2013	MO-AG	(*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $2,402,793
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.	Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	environmental violation	2003	MO-AG	$70,000
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, LLC	Pfizer	environmental violation	2016	EPA	$190,000