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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Matthew Weaver

NHS manager ordered to stop selling ‘sleep drug-laced’ children’s gummies

Bottle of the Nutrition Ignition gummies, with a few of the red gummies placed on the table in front
The Chinese-manufactured magnesium glycinate gummies are advertised as ‘a natural way to help your child sleep better’. Photograph: Ethan Parker/The Guardian

An NHS manager has been stopped from selling children’s gummies allegedly laced with undeclared levels of a prescription-only sleeping drug, the Guardian can reveal.

Magnesium glycinate gummies for children who have trouble sleeping have been sold since March last year by Nutrition Ignition, an Epsom-based company owned by Sally Westcott, whose other job is a clinical therapy lead at Epsom and St Helier NHS trust.

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