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Genzyme to discard drug’s raw materials

Firm moves to avoid recontaminating its Allston facility

By Robert Weisman and Erin Ailworth
Globe Staff / August 11, 2009

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Cambridge biotechnology company Genzyme Corp. said yesterday it will scrap about 80 percent of the material it had on hand to produce the enzyme disorder drug Cerezyme when a virus was discovered at its Boston manufacturing plant in June. (Full article: 1019 words)

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