| Subject: | FDA Comments on Baxter’s Recall of Colleague Infusion Pumps |
| Category: | Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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| Published: | Tue, 4 May 2010 - 08:00 am |
| The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a letter to Baxter Healthcare Corp. on April 30, 2009 ordering the company to recall and destroy all of its Colleague Volumetric Infusion Pumps (Colleague pumps) currently in use in the United States. This action is based on a longstanding failure to correct many serious problems with the pumps. The FDA believes there may be as many as 200,000 of those pumps currently in use. Additionally, the FDA is ordering the company to provide refunds to... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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