PATHEON FRANCE
- Type
- manufacturer (our classification of the record, not a statement by the company)
- Role
- Manufacturer (official record)
- Location
- Bourgoin-Jallieu, France
- Founded
- 1996 (matches the state register)
- Categories
- Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Listed in a source registry
France INSEE Sirene / INPI RNE state register (annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr)
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 22 official records from 14 official sources are on file. 2 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. The manufacturing role above rests on the official records listed below, and only as far as each literally goes: a facility registration or licence is not an observation of current production. Nothing here confirms ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- The inspection report describes the site: La société PATHEON fait partie du groupe Thermo Fisher. Le site de Bourgoin-Jallieu est spécialisé dans la fabrication de produits pharmaceutiques. Aucun principe actif n’est fabriqué sur le site. L’activité consiste à confectionner des médicaments à partir de matières premières, à les mettre en forme (comprimés, gélules…) et à les conditionner. Environ 500 personnes sont employées sur le site. Il fonctionne en 3x8h de 5h le lundi à 21h le vendredi. (record type: facility-activity-described) [official record; status green] The inspection report describes the site: La société PATHEON fait partie du groupe Thermo Fisher. Le site de Bourgoin-Jallieu est spécialisé dans la fabrication de produits pharmaceutiques. Aucun principe actif n’est fabriqué sur le site. L’activité consiste à confectionner des médicaments à partir de matières premières, à les mettre en forme (comprimés, gélules…) et à les conditionner. Environ 500 personnes sont employées sur le site. Il fonctionne en 3x8h de 5h le lundi à 21h le vendredi.. A state inspector wrote this after standing on the site, so it describes what the plant actually does, not what its own website claims. checked 2026-10-20. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
- inspection-follow-up (record type: inspection-follow-up) [official record; status amber] Inspection 2026-03-24: 9 control points, 4 with follow-up: Confinement des fuites: proposed Demande d'action corrective (request for corrective action), 3 Mois; Détection de fuites: proposed Demande d'action corrective (request for corrective action), 2 Mois; Contrôle périodique des équipements: proposed Demande d'action corrective (request for corrective action), 3 Mois; Marque de contrôle: proposed Demande d'action corrective (request for corrective action), 2 Mois. The inspector checked each regulatory point and wrote down which ones need a follow-up. A request for documents is an open question, not a proven breach; the report does not say how it was resolved later. checked 2026-10-20. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
- On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 1996. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. effective since 2026-08-01. INSEE SIRENE (Registre national des entreprises)
- Registered as a manufacturer (record type: registered-manufacturer) [official record; status green] Its own declared activity in the register covers making these goods. checked 2026-10-17. Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria de El Salvador, listado de productos farmaceuticos con registro sanitario vigente
- Legal entity ID lapsed (record type: lei-lapsed) [official record; status amber] The global finance identifier was not renewed. This does not mean the company closed. checked 2026-08-23. GLEIF global LEI register (golden copy)
- Street address on file in the state register (record type: registered-establishment) [official record; status green] The place of business the company itself declared when it registered. The register records the declaration; it does not inspect the site or show that anything is made there. effective since 2026-08-01. INSEE SIRENE (Registre national des entreprises)
- registry-activity (record type: registry-activity) [official record; status green] Activity code in the state register: NAF 21.20Z. Shows what the state itself says the company does, which you can compare with what it promises you. checked 2026-10-15. France INSEE Sirene state register (data.gouv.fr bulk file)
- Legally registered and still active (record type: registry-active-global) [official record; status green] Shows the register lists the registration as active on the date we read it. It does not show how busy the business is. checked 2026-10-15. France INSEE Sirene state register (data.gouv.fr bulk file)
- Medicines manufacturing or import authorisation (MIA) (record type: medicines-mia-holder) [official record; status green] A medicines regulator authorises this company to manufacture and/or import medicinal products at the named site. The register lists the authorisation itself, not which products it covers, and it is not a record of trading. effective since 2026-08-15. EudraGMDP manufacturing and importation authorisation register (EMA)
- Listed in the national industrial register as an industrial site (record type: industrial-site-registered) [official record; status green] The country's industrial register lists this company as holding a working industrial establishment, with its own registry number and activity code. A trading office does not get one. Open the source for the entry. effective since 2024-12-31. IREP, French register of pollutant releases and waste (declared by the operator)
- GMP certificate from a medicines agency (record type: gmp-certified) [official record; status green] A medicines regulator inspected the site and confirmed it may manufacture medicines. effective since 2023-09-29. EudraGMDP, EU register of GMP certificates (EMA)
- EU customs identifier (EORI) active (record type: export-registered-eori) [official record; status green] An EORI number identifies the company to EU customs for imports, exports and transit. A valid number does not show that any shipment took place and is not a licence to export a particular product. checked 2026-07-29. EU EORI validation (European Commission)
- Files its annual accounts, latest on public record (record type: bodacc-accounts-filed) [official record; status green] Annual accounts filed for 2025. Indicates the company still meets its reporting duties. checked 2026-07-29. BODACC (annuaire-entreprises)
- Registry ID checks out with the state register (record type: registry-id-verified) [official record; status green] Helps confirm the company on this page is the same legal entity as in the register. checked 2026-07-29. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
- Named directors on file (record type: directors-on-file) [official record; status green] 4 directors on file. The register names the people who run the company, so there is someone answerable if something goes wrong. checked 2026-07-29. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
- financials-published (record type: financials-published) [official record; status green] Annual accounts filed for 2023: revenue €106.3M, profit €9.8M. Lets you size the supplier against your own volume: the figure comes from accounts filed with the state, not from a claim on a website. effective since 2023-12-31. INPI/BCE published accounts (data.economie.gouv.fr)
- No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. checked 2026-07-29. OpenSanctions
- No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. checked 2026-07-29. OpenSanctions
- EU VAT number valid for cross-border trade (record type: vat-valid) [official record; status green] The number is registered and active: we asked the EU VIES service and it answered yes. An invalid VAT number is the first sign an invoice comes from the wrong company. checked 2026-07-29. VIES
- Street address on file in the state register (record type: registered-address) [official record; status green] The address the company itself gave the register, so post and inspectors reach it there. checked 2026-08-10. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
- Workforce size in the company register (record type: workforce-on-record) [official record; status green] Between 500 and 999 employees on the state record. One indication of the company's size as the register records it; it does not establish production capacity. effective since 2026-07-01. INSEE SIRENE (Registre national des entreprises)
- product-authorised-for-sale (record type: product-authorised-for-sale; this record does not by itself establish manufacturing) [official record; status green] A national regulator lists this company as the MAKER of products it has authorised for sale in that country. It is an export footprint you can check, not a quality rating: the register says the goods were allowed in, not that they are good. checked 2026-10-19. NAFDAC Greenbook, Nigeria - register of authorised products (manufacturer named on the authorisation)
- Operating permit for the production site (record type: operating-permit) [official record; status green] Shows an authority issued a permit for an installation at this site for the activity named in the record. A permit is not an inspection report and not an observation that production is running today. checked 2026-08-31. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
- A state inspector visited the site, on the official record (record type: facility-inspected) [official record; status green] Inspected 2026-03-24. An inspector came to the site on that date, so the site existed then and was not only licensed on paper. The visit itself does not show what was being made there. checked 2026-10-23. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
Government supervision
Supervision records found: 1 site(s) under a permit, 0 other site(s) on the register, 4 dated inspection(s). A permit or a register entry is not an inspection; each record is listed above with its source.
Relationships
5 relationship(s) on file. Each line names the other party, the relationship as its source records it, and the source. A record of a relationship is not a finding about control beyond what it literally says.
Recorded in a source
- 4 more officer(s), not named in the record: Officer in the register. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
- 40 BOULEVARD DE CHAMPARET 38300 BOURGOIN-JALLIEU: Site named in the record. INSEE SIRENE (Registre national des entreprises)
- 40 Boulevard de Champaret CS 11006, 38307 Bourgoin-Jallieu: Holds the site's permit. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
- Bourgoin Jallieu: Manufactures at the site. EudraGMDP, EU register of GMP certificates (EMA)
- PATHEON FRANCE: Site named in the record. IREP, French register of pollutant releases and waste (declared by the operator)
Import rules for these goods
- Medicines imported into the EU must come from a site holding an EU GMP certificate, and the importer needs a manufacturing/import authorisation. European Medicines Agency (GMP)