Table 1.

Leading innovator organizations

Organization	Products	Location
Merck	52	Darmstadt, Germany
Bayer	52	Wuppertal, Germany
Abbott	31	Chicago, USA
Hoechst	29	Frankfurt, Germany
Parke–Davis	25	Detroit, USA
Schering	24	Berlin, Germany
Sterling–Winthrop	25	Wheeling, USA
Roche	22	Basel, Switzerland
Knoll	16	Ludwigshafen, Germany
Eli Lilly	14	Indianapolis, USA
H.K. Mulford	14	Philadelphia, USA
Merck & Co.	12	New York, USA

The private sector organizations contributing to the largest number of non-FDA-regulated pharmaceutical products (prior to Kefauver-Harris) is indicated, along with the number of new products and the location of the company.