 After complicated legal turns in the 1960s, a settlement was reached in 1969, whereby Astra set aside certain compensation funds to the victim.This turn of events led to a revision of safety thinking in drug development, and to date it is still considered as the worst tragedy and scandal in the history of the Swedish pharmaceutical industry.In 1983 Astra withdrew its neuropharmacological drug Zelmid, which had only introduced the year before, because of concerns over side effects.