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...