I was disgusted....too many lives ruined and too many years passed 

but they didn't actually say 'sorry' just a lot of guff about regrets and stuff and only because some Australians are taking a class action against them 

although it's a start for disabling so many people and making their mother's guilty for taking a drug that was supposed to help with morning sickness.

I hope the 400 odd sufferers in the UK get some form of compensation for help towards adaptations and care as they deserve it 

This is the crux of it. They may be apologizing, but they're still not admitting liability. Until they do, their words are - literally - worthless.

Harald Stock, Gruenenthal's chief executive, said "We ask that you regard our long silence as a sign of the shock that your fate caused in us." Somehow I don't think many people are going to buy that...

I have followed this subject for years, i do not recognise this as an apology to be honest. I do hope the victims will be compensated, even posthumously. Too little too late imo. Hopefully though lessons have been learnt, and God forbid it cant happen again. Not much for the victims tho. I hope ATOS, with the new disablement agenda recognise this . Too many benefits are being taken from the ones who genuinely need it, Thalidomide victims too, as i have heard, if its true, shame on them.

My cousins Thalidomide.

Used to visit Trefoil outside Edinburgh every week back in the day.

No arms - but the things she could do with her feet.

Kinda lost touch.

Christ. They were in shock a long time. 

And my resounding memory was the spirit these guys had.

Brian - you stayed with me.

The most upbeat, friendly, perky guy.

I'll never forget him.

Sadly he passed.

There was a documentary about my cous a few years ago by Esther Rantzen.

I know she's done amazingly - only family politics get in the way.

I don't reckognise this as an outright apology and admission of culpability. Enough already after all these years. If ppl want to sue, don't fight them and spend their hard earned money, just pay out and go spend the rest of your lives saying Hail Marys and Pater Nosters. Shameful. I remember my mother expressing her anger about this and she died in 1975.

Same with an ex-colleague of mine, unbelievable what he could do with his feet.

My mother suffered terribly with sickness when she was carrying my sis' and I, she had a stomach ulcer which we were aggravating and was offered thalidomide over and over again, thankfully for us she wasn't one for taking tablets