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Published on: 23 May 2025

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Antitrust CMA accepts Vifor’s commitments to end CMA’s abuse probe into disparaging treatment in iron treatment market

The CMA has confirmed it will accept commitments from Vifor Pharma (Vifor) to address concerns that it abused a dominant position by issuing misleading claims about a competing intravenous iron treatment.

By way of context, on 31 January 2024, the CMA opened an investigation into whether Vifor—the company behind the intravenous iron deficiency medicine Ferinject—had curtailed competition by circulating misinformation to healthcare professionals about the safety of a rival product, Monofer, supplied by Pharmacosmosa, a family-owned specialist pharmaceutical company.

To resolve the CMA’s competition concerns, Vifor has undertaken to:

  • make a voluntary payment of £23m to the NHS
  • rectify any potentially misleading communications issued by Vifor Pharma regarding the safety of Monofer and Ferinject through a multi-channel communications campaign directed at healthcare professionals
  • introduce a range of compliance measures to prevent the future dissemination of potentially misleading communications about the safety of Monofer and Ferinject to healthcare professionals

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