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J&J

Johnson & Johnson

health

1 👺

Johnson & Johnson is an American health company which sold asbestos‑containing baby powder leading to cancer and lung disease [1][2], conducted experiments on black prisoners [3][4], and sold a dangerous birth‑control patch that caused strokes, unwanted pregnancies, and deaths [5]. The company concealed the overdose risk of Tylenol leading to several deaths [6], sold fentanyl patches that killed more than fifty people [7][8], deployed a disinformation campaign to sell tranquilizer pills that disfigured tens of thousands of children and killed elderly patients [9][10], sold a defective hip replacement that ruined over a thousand lives [13], targeted high‑risk individuals to encourage opioid addiction [14], and covered up research about the danger of its cancer therapy, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths [11][12], - all while bribing doctors to prescribe its products [15][16].

Bayer

Bayer

pharmaceuticals

2 👺

Bayer is a German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company which used bribery and false advertising to sell unnecessary drugs [1], sold Monsanto herbicides linked to cancer [2][3][4], and contaminated water sources with toxic chemicals [5][6]. Bayer also rushed production processes that led to an explosion killing two people [7], sold contraceptive coils that caused serious health issues [8], knowingly supplied HIV‑contaminated medications in Asia and Latin America [9], and supported the Nazis by producing Zyklon B for gas chambers [10].

Merck

Merck

pharmaceuticals

3 👺

Merck is a U.S. pharmaceutical company that has engaged in tax avoidance [1], sold several unsafe medications [2][3][4][5], and discharged toxic chemicals into rivers, causing fish deaths [6]. The company has defrauded Medicaid of hundreds of millions of dollars [7][8][9], engaged in deceptive marketing of unsafe products [10][11], discredited doctors who questioned their dangerous medication [12], and sold medication that killed 25,000 people while refusing to compensate victims fairly [13][14].

Pfizer

Pfizer

pharmaceuticals

3 👺

Pfizer is a United States pharmaceutical company that has engaged in intense and unethical marketing of medications to doctors [1], illegal off‑label promotion of gabapentin [2], neurontin [3], and arthritis drug Bextra [4][5][6], bribed doctors to prescribe its drugs [7][8][9], spent millions lobbying politicians [10], evaded taxes [11], overcharged the NHS for medicines [12][13], and bullied Latin American countries into unfavorable COVID‑vaccine deals [14]. It has also sold dangerous products, including an anti‑smoking drug linked to more than 20 suicides [15], a defective heart valve that killed hundreds of patients [16][17], and conducted lethal trials on Nigerian children that killed 50 [18][19][20], while firing an employee who sued for workplace injury [21], and causing a plant explosion that injured five people [22].

Carrefour

Carrefour

retail

4 👺

Carrefour is a French supermarket chain that has subjected employees to carbon monoxide poisoning [1], and sourced goods from supply chains involving animal abuse [2], slave labour [3], and illegal deforestation of the amazon rainforest [4][5]. Carrefour has subjected LGBT customers to discrimination [6], and refused to compensate the families of workers who were killed in the unsafe working conditions of one of its garment factories [7][8], while a young girl died in one if its stores after being electrocuted [9] and multiple people have been beaten and killed by store security guards [10][11].

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River Island

River Island

retail

42 😐

River Island is a British fashion retailer that has sold sexist products [1, has been linked to exploitation of garment workers in its supply chain [2][3][4], failed to pay minimum wage [5], and has connections to Israel and Zionism [6].

Robert Dyas

Robert Dyas

50 😐

Robert Dyas is a British retailer that has been criticized for poor customer service [1][2].

Rip Curl

Rip Curl

sportswear

? 🤔

Rip Curl is owned by kmd-brands.

Rimmel

Rimmel

consumer-goods

? 🤔

Rimmel is owned by coty.

Lekkerland

Lekkerland

retail

43 😐

Lekkerland is owned by REWE Group.

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