TO PRODUCE NEW PHARMACEUTICALS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600300298-8
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 298
• Publication Date: April 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Zone Germany DATE OF
Economic - Pharmaceuticals and chemicals INFORMATION 1950
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED 3, 6 Jan 1950
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TO PRODUCE NEW PHARMACEUTICALS
PLANT EXPANDED -- Thueringische Landeszeitung, No 1, 3 Jan 50
Outstanding achievements in pharmaceutical production are expected from
the people-owned Promossol plant in Erfurt, which recently absorbed the former
Lessing-Chemie chemical plant: The enterprise is best known as the producer
of the'patent preparations Lepitoin and Evosin.
The plant's research laboratory, under the direction of Doctor (fnu)
Luther, has developed other important pharmaceuticals, production of which
is planned in the near future. One of these medications is Dehydrocol, a
bile acid preparation made from an extract of bile secretions taken from
slaughtered animals; it is used as a cure for diseases of the gall bladder
and liver. The pure dehydrocol acid produced in Erfurt is also obtainable
in ampules for use in injections. In this form the preparation can be used
with good results in the treatment of a number of coronary diseases, such
as angina pectoris. It is of particular interest that the substance will
dissolve tuberculosis bacilli, which should make it valuable as an aid in the
treatment of tuberculosis.
Another pharmaceutical to be produced by the Promossol plant in the near
future is Dicumarol, an anticoagulation vitamin which prevents clotting of
the blood. Dicumarol can be produced simply and inexpensively and is of
great value to the surgical profession as an effective preventive of throm-
bosis. Production of anthelmintics is also scheduled to start soon.
As a result of postwar conditions, every fourth person in Soviet Zone
Germany] is infected with worms. This disease is steadily increasing be-
cause no effective remedy has been made available thus far. The Promossol
plant has succeeded in developing Viocid, a harmless preparation based on
gentian violet, an effective but not entirely nonpoisonous medication developed
in the US. Because Viocid is effective only against maggots and not against
other ascaridic parasites, the plant has developed a second remedy,
hexylresorcin, which is equally effective against both types of Norms. Mass
production will begin after clinical investigations are made.
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TO STRESS EXPORT OF C EMICALS -- Der Morgen, No 5, 6 Jan 50
Du_ 1950 the 25 enterprises of the Association of People-Owned
Variochea(chemical) Plants will stress the production of household chemi-
cals and concentrates for export. According to the Director General, ex-
periments in manuf;.cturing such chemicals and concentrates from domestic
raw materials have been successful. Preliminary export negotiations with
Belgium and some of the South American countries indicate good sales possi-
bilities.
Within the scope of this program, Variochem-Fotografika will increase
its production of photographic papers for export. It is also anticipated that
a profitable business will be done with color films, and increased production
of both edible and photographic gelatines is planned, together with an in-
crease in the production of water glass.
In the Finowtal Chemical Factory a camphor plant is to be installed dur-
ing the current year, to supply the photographic industry with its require-
ments of camphor, which are now being covered by imports.
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