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Watchdog group pressures FDA about contaminated syringes

Watchdog group Project on Government Oversight (POGO) is asking the Food and Drug Administration () inspector general to investigate why the agency failed to stop contaminated syringes from reaching the public that caused four deaths and 162 serious injuries to individuals who were treated with the tainted products.

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Two sentenced for role in tainted heparin, saline syringes

syringe 100x100In an effort to ship heparin- and saline-filled syringes faster, workers at a facility in North Carolina failed to check sterility and then falsified manufacturing dates to make it appear those safeguards were followed, according to an Associated Press report. Those syringes, as it turned out, were tainted with a bacteria known as Serratia marcescens and may have lead to five deaths and hundreds of infections in those who received them.

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