A German baby formula manufacturer will pay at least US$16 million in compensation to Israeli families whose infants died or suffered developmental damage after they were fed a milk substitute that lacked a crucial vitamin, Channel Two TV reported on Saturday.
Three babies died late last year after being fed the soy-based formula produced by the German company Humana Milchunion for the Israeli firm Remedia. Thirteen other infants were harmed by the effects of drinking the product.
Remedia is partly owned by the US food giant HJ Heinz Co, which said last year it did not expect its earnings to be affected by the deaths of the infants.
According to a settlement reached between the Israeli and German companies, Humana will pay between US$16 million and US$22 million in compensation, the channel reported.
The parties have yet to finalize the deal on paper, the TV said. The compensation, if granted, would be the greatest amount ever given an Israeli party in a court case, they said. The father of an Israeli baby affected by drinking the formula, Amir Nati, told Israel Radio Saturday that her health was fragile, she could not move her eyes and had not yet begun standing at the age of 15 months.
"Our daughter was healthy when she was born ... but because of a formula she drank her whole life has been damaged," Nati said about the Israeli and German companies. "We will never forgive them."
The kosher product Remedia Super Soya 1 made exclusively for the Israeli market lacked sufficient amounts of Vitamin B-1, or thiamin, which is crucial for the development the central nervous system. The actual amount of the vitamin in the milk substitute was one-tenth the advertised amount.
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