Labour Peer's Firm Sold Up to 900,000 Faulty Tb Jabs to Nhs

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By John Sweeney WINNER OF THE PAUL FOOT AWARD FOR CAMPAIGNING JOURNALISM

A DRUGS company run by multimillionaire Government Minister Lord Drayson who was awarded a peerage and made Defence Procurement Minister while donating more than Pounds 1million to the Labour Party may have risked the health of thousands of British children by keeping secret potentially critical faults in its vaccines.

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Labour Peer's Firm Sold Up to 900,000 Faulty Tb Jabs to Nhs

Paul Drayson's company PowderJect knew for nearly two years that nine batches of the anti-tuberculosis BCG vaccine had failed quality- control checks.

But the company failed to inform the health regulators or its main customer, the National Health Service.

Internal tests at ...

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