Pharma company to be sentenced for waste regulations breaches

A pharmaceutical company is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in relation to its waste management practices.

AHP Manufacturing Bv trading as Wyeth Medica Ireland pleaded guilty through their financial director, Mr Tim Brosnan, to two counts that on dates in 2000 and 2001 that they did within the State dispose of or recover waste materials by means of a company who was not an agreed hazardous waste contractor.