Manager at baby food company is under investigation for manslaughter
Jane Burgermeister
Vienna

German state prosecutors have launched an investigation into a manager at
the baby food manufacturer Humana after the deaths of two infants in Israel
(BMJ 15 November, News extra).

Harald Krahmüller, spokesman for the state prosecution office in Bielefeld,
North Rhine-Westphalia, said that the head of Humana's product development
department was expected to be charged with manslaughter and causing
grievous bodily harm after she failed to ensure that a non-dairy baby
formula made for sale only in Israel was submitted to independent quality
control measures.

The police are also questioning other staff at the Herford based company—
one of the largest baby food manufacturers in Europe—after a series of
errors that allowed baby food without vitamin B-1 to go on sale in Israel.

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