Boiron

Boiron
Company typePublic
Euronext: BOI
IndustryAlternative medicine
Founded7 June 1932; 92 years ago (1932-06-07)
FoundersJean Boiron
Henri Boiron
HeadquartersMessimy, France
Area served
worldwide
Key people
Valérie Poinsot (CEO)
Revenue604 million € (2018)
57.4 million € (2018)
Number of employees
3,723
Websitewww.boiron.fr

Boiron (French pronunciation: [bwaʁɔ̃]) is a manufacturer of homeopathic products, headquartered in France and with an operating presence in 59 countries worldwide. It is the largest manufacturer of homeopathic products in the world. In 2004, it employed a workforce of 2,779 and had a turnover of € 313 million. It is currently a member of the CAC Small stock index.

In June 2005, the firm acquired Dolisos Laboratories, then the world's second largest manufacturer of homeopathic preparations.[1]

Products of Boiron include mono- (Hahnemanian) and poly-preparations, which Boiron refer to as "Proprietary drugs".[citation needed]

Homeopathy is a pseudoscience with no evidence of effectiveness for stated claims or plausible mechanism of medicinal effect,[2][3][4] and several class action lawsuits have been filed on behalf of consumers claiming that Boiron's homeopathic products, including Children's Coldcalm and Oscillococcinum, are useless and Boiron's marketing of these products is deceptive.[5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ "La fusion entre Dolisos et Boiron est effective". La Dépêche (in French). 4 July 2005. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  2. ^ Caulfield, Timothy; Debow, Suzanne (2005). "A systematic review of how homeopathy is represented in conventional and CAM peer reviewed journals". BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 5: 12. doi:10.1186/1472-6882-5-12. PMC 1177924. PMID 15955254.
  3. ^ "Fun with homeopaths and meta-analyses of homeopathy trials". Science-Based Medicine. 13 October 2008. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
  4. ^ Baran GR, Kiana MF, Samuel SP (2014). "Science, Pseudoscience, and Not Science: How do They Differ?". Healthcare and Biomedical Technology in the 21st Century. Springer. pp. 19–57. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-8541-4_2. ISBN 978-1-4614-8540-7.
  5. ^ "Gina Delrosa vs Boiron, Inc" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
  6. ^ Homeopathic Drugmaker Can't Nix Class Action Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Children's Coldcalm Class Action Lawsuit
  8. ^ Boiron Oscillococcinum Class Action Lawsuit