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

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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. The Chinese-manufactured gummies are advertised as "a natural way to help your child sleep better" and are described by Westcott on Facebook as "especially beneficial in children with ADHD and autism". But the adverts and…