31 OCT

Pharmaceutical company charged following baby deaths – police

Pharmaceutical company ITH Pharma Ltd has been charged with a litany of offences following the deaths of babies at a number of British hospitals, police have announced.

London-based, ITH Pharma Ltd, is facing criminal charges after allegedly supplying contaminated feed to premature babies.

The charges come after an investigation was launched in 2014, after three babies died and another 20 needed treatment over contracting septicemia (blood poisoning).

Scotland Yard said in a statement: “ITH Pharma Ltd, based at Premier Park, NW10, has been charged with seven counts of supplying a medicinal product which was not of the nature or quality specified in the prescription on 27 May 2014.

”It has also been charged with failing to take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that patients were not infected by contaminants, in breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act, between 1 August 2009 and 1 June 2014.

“The company is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 17 December.”

The babies who died were treated at two hospitals: St Thomas’ in London and Rosie Maternity Hospital, Cambridge.

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