The same radioactive substance was unknowingly handled at the Alliance Medical Radiopharmacy Limited facility at Keele University Science Park in November 15 of the same year, leading to a staff member being contaminated with an excessive skin dose.
In both incidents, the doses were in excess of the limit as defined by the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017. An investigation by HSE into the Leeds incident found that training and instruction was inadequate. Image: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty ImagesAlliance Medical Limited were fined £300,000 after pleading guilty to breaches of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017, regulations 12, 18, 18 and 18a, and they were also ordered to pay costs of £11,382 at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on September 29 2022.
In the same court and on the same date, the company’s radiopharmaceutical subsidiary company, Alliance Medical Radiopharmacy Limited, pleaded guilty to breaches of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017, regulations 9a, 11 and 12, and were fined £120,000.