Girl died five years after being poisoned by supplement

A BABY girl developed brain damage and died five years later after being poisoned by food which contained magnesium levels 120 times above normal.

Elaine Barrett from Galway, who was born prematurely, was less than six weeks old when she was given a special bag of food supplement in May 2003 which turned out to be contaminated.

Her father, Frank Barrett, of Cloonacauneen, Claregalway, yesterday recounted how he and his wife, Eileen, were told that their little baby girl had little chance of survival after being fed the contaminated feed.