 In late 1961 this drug was connected to a number of birth defects in Germany and was withdrawn from the German market.Three weeks later Astra's Neurosedyn was withdrawn in Sweden, after having been on the market slightly less than three years.It turned out that around one hundred Swedish children had suffered deformation from their mother's taking the supposedly safe drug during their pregnancies, as the Swedish part of the wider Thalidomide scandal affecting around 10,000 worldwide.