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Amid a massive recall in 2021, the medical device maker Philips raced to overcome troubling questions about its replacement machines as customers waited for help.

But as Philips publicly pledged to send out replacements, supervisors inside the company’s headquarters near Pittsburgh were quietly racing to manage a new crisis that threatened the massive recall and posed risks to patients all over again.

Tests by independent laboratories retained by Philips had found that a different foam used by the company — material fitted inside the millions of replacement machines — was also emitting dangerous chemicals, including formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.

Though Philips has said the machines are safe, ProPublica and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette obtained test results and other internal records that reveal for the first time how scientists working for the company grew increasingly alarmed and how infighting broke out as the new threat reached the highest levels of the Pittsburgh operation.

The findings also underscore an unchecked pattern of corporate secrecy that began long before Philips decided to use the new foam.

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[–] oDDmON@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cancer causing breathing apparatus, exploding MRI machines, WTF is next Phillips?

[–] casmael@startrek.website 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)
  • glue that stabs your pets
  • sandwich that explodes on impact
  • bicycle with detachable bicycle (very dangerous)
  • torch that releases chlorine gas when used
  • uranium paint
  • wigs (sounds safe but you never know)
[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 7 points 11 months ago

I'm fairly sure we've already had all of those... God are we fucked.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Who needs government regulations? What's a few measly lives? Just "collateral damage" while the "free market" "corrects itself."

Plus, it's their own fault for not doing enough research first.

[–] crsu@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Yeah but how are the real victims, the shareholders, doing?