Companies fined €40,000 over waste breaches

A pharmaceutical company and one of its contractors have been fined €40,000 each at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges relating to their waste management practices.

AHP Manufacturing BV trading as Wyeth Medica Ireland pleaded guilty through their financial director, Mr Tim Brosnan, to two counts that they disposed of or recovered waste materials, namely rinse water containing active ingredient medroxyprogestrone acetate (MPA), by means of Cara Environmental Technology who was not an agreed hazardous waste contractor, on September 18, 2000 and November 28, 2001.