31 Aug, 2019 @ 20:19
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OPINION: Answers needed over Spain’s ‘werewolf’ drug contamination scandal

HOW on earth did children’s medication become contaminated with a hair-growth protein meant for alopecia patients? 

It must have been extremely upsetting for the parents of the affected children who suddenly began growing hair all over their bodies

It is also incredibly worrying how such a contamination could have gone unnoticed for so long. 

It’s good to hear that the company responsible has ceased trading, let’s hope the parents are awarded some form of compensation. 

What if a more harmful substance had contaminated the children’s formula? A full investigation is needed to answer what went wrong and how.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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