This incited Bristol-Myers 'vigilance, and the result was that Yuen Foong Yu got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. The controversy surrounding the case--even if Union Chemical Laboratories was not directly involved--could not help but depress the research atmosphere, thus reducing the threat to Taxol.
永豐案發生後，儘管化工所等單位沒被牽扯進去，但研究氣勢難免為之中挫，對「汰癌勝」的威脅也相對減緩。