As a research-based company dedicated to fighting and preventing disease by developing innovative medicines and vaccines, Merck is committed to providing the global community with quality products and a reliable supply of safe and effective medicines and vaccines. We take our responsibility to public health — and patient safety — very seriously. This is why we maintain strict product quality standards and redundant supply chain safeguards to ensure the safety and supply of our products no matter where our medicines and vaccines are manufactured in the world.

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Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA, and Schering-Plough Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ, USA, are now one company. We have combined our global operations under the name Merck & Co., Inc. We are working to update our corporate responsibility Web site to reflect our new, combined, global organization.