A day after the article in the German paper “Welt am Sonntag” (“World on Sunday”) was published, Grünenthal informed the state health authority about its decision to withdraw Thalidomide from the West German market.

Source: Chronology of events provided by Beate Kirk, in: Der Conterganfall: eine unvermeidbare Arzneimittelkatastrophe? Dissertation. Greifswald 1998.