Sandoz facts for kids
Today Sandoz is a part of Novartis. It is a big pharmaceutical firm in Switzerland. Today, Sandoz produces many drugs whose patents have run out (so called generic drugs). The original company, which was founded in 1886, is known for several things:
- It invented saccharin in 1899. Saccharin is an artificial sweetener, a substitute for sugar. Artificial sweeteners are used in many Light-products today.
Images for kids
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Suffern, New York: one of the Novartis pharmaceutical production facilities in the United States
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Novartis in Cambridge, Massachusetts in November 2019.
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