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Health Ministry workers charged in Remedia deaths
By Yuval Azoulay and Tomer Zarchin, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Health Ministry 

The State Prosecutor's Office is preparing to indict eight people in the Remedia baby food case - three company officials and five Health Ministry employees, State Prosecutor Moshe Lador announced Monday.

In the scandal that broke five years ago, three babies died and more than 20 suffered injuries after being fed a non-dairy baby formula marketed by Remedia, from which the manufacturer, the German firm Humana, had removed an essential vitamin, B1. Remedia failed to inform the public, and its packages did not reflect its actual vitamin content.

The Remedia officials to be charged with causing death by negligence are the company's former food technologist, Frederick Black, former CEO Gideon Landsberger and a former owner, Moshe Miller.
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The Health Ministry officials to be charged with taking an action that might spread disease are Dr. Dorit Nitzan, director of the food and nutrition service at the time, and four inspectors at the quarantine stations at the Ashdod and Haifa ports, who were supposed to inspect food imports.

Lador said Monday that because of the public importance of this case and the large amount of evidence collected, the prosecution will ask the Rishon Letzion Magistrate's Court to appoint a three-judge panel to hear the case.

"Health Ministry officials are furious at the prosecution and police for conducting an amateurish investigation," a senior official said Monday. He accused Humana of defrauding the ministry by not informing it that vitamin B1 was removed from some types of formula.

An official statement said Monday: "The ministry regrets the decision to place its employees on trial in the case, and is hopeful their innocence will be proven beyond doubt. The ministry backs its employees fully and is confident they did their jobs professionally and appropriately."

Lawyers for Remedia said the decision to indict ministry officials attests to a systemic failure in its regulations
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