Dutch clinic stem cells ‘were not for human use’

STEM cells supplied to a Dutch clinic where Irish multiple sclerosis (MS) patients went for treatment were not “intended for human use”, a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing in London was told.

Dr Robert Trossel, aged 55, said he only discovered that a batch of vials sent to him in Rotterdam in 2006 carried the warning when he took part in a BBC Newsnight programme.

Dr Trossel also came to the attention of the Irish Medicines Board in 2006 when he began flying here to use Dr John Dunphy’s practice at Carrigaline, Co Cork, to provide such stem cell therapy.