An American pharmaceuticals worker who blew the whistle on manufacturing failures at GlaxoSmithKline's drug-making factory in Puerto Rico was today rewarded with a $96 million (£60.7 million) payout.
Cheryl Eckard, 51, Glaxo's global quality-assurance manager, spent most of her time working at the British pharma firm's Puerto Rico plant, her lawyer Neil Getnick said.
There she discovered manufacturing problems, including micro-organisms in Glaxo's antibiotic cream Bactroban and Paxil depression pills which lacked the active ingredient.
Getnick said Eckard urged Glaxo managers to improve the manufacturing process, or even close the plant, but was sacked in 2003 for raising the complaints.
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