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CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

Canada Payment Transparency Disclosure

Our company aspires to be open and transparent about how we operate in order to earn and retain the trust and confidence of our customers, employees, shareholders and other important stakeholders.

In light of the international transparency initiatives already underway and the potential for similar developments in Canada, Innovative Medicines Canada has designed a Voluntary Framework on Disclosure of Payments for Member companies who choose to voluntarily adopt it. Merck is moving forward with voluntary disclosure of payments and will be engaging stakeholders in related discussions.

In considering the types of activities/categories whereby Member companies would disclose aggregated payments for the following categories:

Fee for Health Care Professional Services
Funding to Health Care Organizations
Sponsorship of Canadian Health Care Professional International Travel

A detailed description of each category can be found in the Voluntary Framework on Disclosure of Payments, developed by Innovative Medicines Canada.

Disclosure Report

Global Transparency Disclosures

Merck aspires to be open and transparent about how it operates in order to earn and retain the trust and confidence of its customers, employees, shareholders and other important stakeholders.

MSD Transparency Disclosures

Forward-Looking Statement

Forward-Looking Statement of MSD & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA

This website of MSD & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA (the “company”) includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of the company’s management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. There can be no guarantees with respect to pipeline products that the products will receive the necessary regulatory approvals or that they will prove to be commercially successful. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results may differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements.

Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general industry conditions and competition; general economic factors, including interest rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations; the impact of pharmaceutical industry regulation and healthcare legislation in the United States and internationally; global trends toward healthcare cost containment; technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges inherent in new product development, including obtaining regulatory approval; the company’s ability to accurately predict future market conditions; manufacturing difficulties or delays; financial instability of international economies and sovereign risk; dependence on the effectiveness of the company’s patents and other protections for innovative products; and the exposure to litigation, including patent litigation, and/or regulatory actions.

The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Additional factors that could cause results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements can be found in the company’s 2015 Annual Report on Form 10-K and the company’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) available at the SEC’s Internet site (www.sec.gov).

No Duty to Update

The information contained in this website was current as of the date presented. The company assumes no duty to update the information to reflect subsequent developments. Consequently, the company will not update the information contained in the website and investors should not rely upon the information as current or accurate after the presentation date.