A Fulton County jury has declined to hold a doctor and hospital liable after an elderly woman claimed she was rendered dangerously ill after a severe allergic reaction to the Red Dye No. 40 in an iron supplement she was prescribed.
Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney partner Frederick Gleaton said expert testimony that no scientific link between the dye and the anaphylactic reaction the woman experienced has ever been proven was likely key to the jury’s decision.
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