Jerusalem, Israel - Indictments Coming in Baby Food Scandal

Jerusalem, Israel - Israeli officials have announced plans to indict the former owner and the former chief executive officer of the Remedia baby food company.

The announcement comes three years after three infants died and dozens were injured after eating defective non-dairy, soy-based formula.  Two other senior Remidea employees will also be indicted, along with a Health Ministry official and four ministry inspectors at the ports of Haifa and Ashdod, who were supposed to have tested the food.
Former Remedia owner Moshe Miller, former company chief Gideon Landsberg and the company's food technologist, Fredrick Bleck, will be accused of manslaughter by negligence. The rest will be charged with negligence, among other charges.

The indictment alleges that Remedia employees were aware that baby formula did not contain the essential B1 vitamin, changed ingredient information on the packages, and tried to interfere with the police investigation by offering Remedia employees money for giving untrue testimony. 

The scandal erupted in November 2003, when it was revealed that 10 infants had been hospitalized with encephalopathy. All the infants had been fed on the Remedia baby formula.