Pharma giant hit with £1.2m fine after baby deaths

A pharmaceutical company has been fined £1.2m after supplying contaminated drip feeds linked to the death of three babies. ITH Pharma Ltd, based in Wembley, was charged with multiple offences after the children died and around 20 others needed treatment at several hospitals across the UK. Legal representatives for the company, a supplier of specialist drip feeds for premature and vulnerable babies, accept that the feed was contaminated and admitted to failing to make a suitable risk assessment between 1…