California Pharmaceutical Liability Attorneys

When a new pharmaceutical product enters the market, it goes through a rigorous process that is held in the Food and Drug Administration. Although the FDA does research into the history of any adverse or side-effects that the drug may have, often times the research that is done in the FDA is inconclusive. Any new side-effects of the prescription drug must be reported within 15 days of the initial release of the product, meaning that many side-effects that had not been fully researched may be caused to unsuspecting patients. Since these side-effects are still part of the original pharmaceutical product’s compound, the fault is placed on the manufacturer of the pharmaceutical product.