16 Quotes by Kent Jarrell

Second Chance was the bad actor, not Toyobo. There was no conspiracy. Second Chance deceived Toyobo, the law enforcement community, and investigating authorities including the Department of Justice.

Cases we'll be looking at concern ingestion of Vioxx for 18 months or more by patients with limited heart risk factors.

It is apparent that Toyobo was duped by Second Chance. We were shocked by the level of Second Chance's deception when their behavior was finally uncovered because of documents that surfaced in litigation and through investigation.

Merck's actions were appropriate from beginning to end.

Merck didn't ask for any delays and is ready to defend any of these cases whenever they are scheduled.

Merck and the authors did everything in a proper scientific manner.

Merck acted responsibly, from researching Vioxx prior to approval in studies with almost 10,000 patients, to monitoring the medicine while it was on the market, to voluntarily withdrawing the medicine when it did. We based our decisions on the data from well controlled clinical trials.

We intend to try these cases one by one and that is exactly what we are doing.

We had made all the data available to the FDA, the medical community and the general public in all sorts of ways. So we felt the most proper and most responsible thing to do was work that process with the FDA and the medical community.