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UK: 1.2 million pounds fine for a pharmaceutical group after contaminated infusions

2022-04-29T14:35:32.880Z


19 children had been infected in 2014 in nine English hospitals and three babies had died. British pharmaceutical company ITH Pharma was fined £1.2million on Friday for providing contaminated food infusions to premature newborn babies, potentially causing them " severe harm ", London police said . To discover YOUR COMMUNE - The results of the second round of the presidential election in your area Taxes 2022: all about your tax return Read alsoThe boss of the pharmaceutical group Roch


British pharmaceutical company ITH Pharma was fined £1.2million on Friday for providing contaminated food infusions to premature newborn babies, potentially causing them "

severe harm

", London police said .

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A total of 19 children were infected in 2014 in nine English hospitals after receiving contaminated infusions of the drug "

Total Parenteral Nutrition

" manufactured by the company.

Three babies had died but the court ruled on Friday that the drug or the company were not at fault, although in one case the company's processes posed risks of "

severe harm and/or death

", according to Judge Deborah Taylor.

An investigation into this case was opened in 2014 after the death of the three children and the contamination of around twenty others.

“A long and complex investigation”

The company was charged in 2018 and was sentenced on Friday to a fine of 1.2 million pounds (1.43 million euros) and to pay 291,000 pounds in filing fees.

She had pleaded guilty to failing to carry out a proper and sufficient risk assessment and to “

providing a drug of a nature or quality not corresponding to that specified on the prescription

”, according to the police statement. .

It was a long and complex investigation

,” commented in the press release from the police Richard Leonard, in charge of the investigations.

Our hearts today go out to the affected families.

We accept the fine

“Reacted the pharmaceutical group, stressing that the contamination of infusions in 2014 had been a”

completely exceptional

“incident.

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Raaid Sakkijha, the father of one of the babies who died, said in a statement that the death of his son Yousef "

still and forever haunts us

".

The company that did this to us is not even going to feel the fine.

It's + business as usual + for them

, ”he added.

The pharmaceutical group posted an annual turnover of 66.8 million pounds in September 2020.

Source: lefigaro

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