Ortho Pharmaceutical

Ortho Pharmaceutical
Industrypharmaceutical
Founded1931
Defunct1993 (1993)
FateMerged with McNeil Pharmaceuticals in the US and Janssen Pharmaceutica in Canada (Both are now Johnson & Johnson)
SuccessorsMcNeil Pharmaceuticals in the US and Janssen Pharmaceutica in Canada later both became Johnson & Johnson
Area served
United States

Ortho Pharmaceutical was initially formed in the United States in 1931 as a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson to market the first prescription spermicidal contraceptive jelly, Ortho-Gynol.

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