In 2007, the sleep aid Ambien from Sanofi-Aventis joined that group.

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Nor have smaller firms been much impressed by the recent bungling in America by Aventis, a Franco-German group whose genetically modified maize has mysteriously found its way into the human food chain.

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For well-heeled firms like Aventis, a pharmaceuticals and agribusiness group, this poses little problem even though in 2001 the company's pension liability was half as much again as its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.

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