Local parents, activists deliver petitions to EpiPen maker’s headquarters

Rachel Viehman of Squirrel Hill recently used an EpiPen on her 5-year-old daughter Gabriella for the first time, after the girl came into contact with peanut butter that was on a booster seat in a restaurant.

“It was a horrible and terrifying experience, but at the same time I have no doubt that it saved her life,” she says.

The mother of two says her 10-month-old son also has food allergies, and that doctors have directed her to keep an EpiPen nearby every time she feeds him something new.

Viehman was among a small group of activists who delivered five cardboard boxes containing what they said were the signatures of more than 700,000 “outraged citizens” to EpiPen manufacturer Mylan Pharmaceuticals.

Read the full story from WESA about the Canonsburg-based company that increased the price of its life-saving EpiPen from $100 to more than $600 in less than a decade.