Two companies to be sentenced over waste breaches

A pharmaceutical company and one of its contractors are to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in relation to waste management practices.

Yesterday 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 Limited who was not an agreed hazardous waste contractor, on September 18, 2000 and November 28, 2001.