Bitterfeld A milestone has been reached in Bitterfeld, Germany: since production started in 1995, Bayer has turned out 25 billion tablets of the pain reliever Aspirin® and the antacids Talcid® and Alka-Seltzer® at its site there. All packs of these tablets found in stores in Europe, and some of those sold in America and Asia too, come from Bitterfeld in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. Bayer has invested EUR 630 million and created more than 700 jobs here since 1992 as part of the measures to rebuild the economy of eastern Germany.