GSK Cork ingredient polluted with waste

Active pharmaceutical ingredients manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline in Cork have been found to be contaminated from its pharmaceutical waste tank.

The US Food and Drug Administration said the company became aware of the contamination of the ingredient, which is in anti-depressant drugs that go by brand names Paxil and Seroxat, at its plant in Currabinny, Carrigaline, as far back as January 2012.

It said GSK completed risk assessments to determine the impact on its products, but said potentially contaminated batches were distributed after it became aware of the “significant deviation”.