Dunnes Stores has been fined more than €30,000 for selling infant formula that was nine years out of date.
A five-week-old baby became violently ill when fed Aptamil ready-to-feed infant formula bought at a shop in Trimgate Street, Navan, Co Meath.
The baby’s father purchased 13 bottles of Aptimal on February 8th last year and fed the infant one of the bottles two days later.
The child vomited and was later taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda and kept there under observation.
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One of the bottles fed to the child had an expiry date of June 9th, 2015.
Health Service Executive (HSE) inspectors did a stock take of the Dunne Stores branch in Navan and found no other Aptamil bottles with the same expiry date.
A HSE environmental health officer raised the issue with the store manager and he informed Dunnes Stores’s head office.
However, Dunnes Stores failed to notify the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) about the breach of regulations.
Last month at Navan District Court Judge Eirinn McKiernan fined the company €31,762.71 consisting of €23,423 for the cost of the HSE investigation and the HSE’s legal costs which were €8,289. Dunnes Stores also agreed to pay €10,000 to charity.
Notification of the fine has been published in the latest bulletin from the FSAI.
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