Allegations Of Babies Used For Product Trials In Bessborough
It's been alleged that babies in Cork's Bessborough Mother and Baby Home were used as guinea pigs for commercial products.
A report in today's Irish Examiner revealed a previously unknown trial of lactose and baby formula was carried out by pharmaceutical company Glaxo laboratories on the children in the mid 1970's.
This is the sixth confirmed clinical trial using children in care in Ireland by the predecessor company of GSK, having previously stated only four trials of vaccines were carried out in Ireland in the 60's and 70's.
In a statement from GSK, the company said it had been unable to locate any records relating to a 1974 study, and the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus said it had no information on any such trails.
Speaking to RedFM News Irish Examiner Journalist Conall O'Faharta says these new revelations show it was not only vaccines that were tested on children in Ireland's mother and baby homes:
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