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The industrial plant that houses the Triad Group of Hartland, Wis., is for sale for $14.2 million, real estate listings show. The company was closed after problems with contamination and sterility in medical wipes and other products.
Federal health officials have given a green light for a first step toward reopening for a Wisconsin business shut down after making and distributing contaminated medical wipes blamed for illnesses and deaths nationwide.
Food and Drug Administration officials on Wednesday said they’ve approved a so-called “reconditioning plan” submitted by H&P Industries and the Triad Group of Hartland, Wis. The plan, required under terms of a June court order, stipulates how the sister firms will be allowed to rework more than $6 million of seized medical supplies so that they’re safe for use -- or destroy products that can’t be repaired.
But the public won’t be allowed to know exactly how the firms intend to fix the problems with products distributed to hospitals, clinics, stores and homes in the U.S. and around the world, the FDA has ruled.
The agency has denied an msnbc.com public records request for copies of two reconditioning plans submitted by the firms. In a letter, officials said release of the documents would disclose trade secrets and confidential commercial information and could interfere with law enforcement proceedings.
The approval of the reconditioning proposal comes a year this month after the death of a 2-year-old Houston boy, Harrison Kothari, from an infection caused by the same bacterium detected in alcohol prep wipes made and distributed by H&P Industries and the Triad Group. At least 11 deaths, including Harry’s, have been tied to alcohol prep wipes, including those made by the Wisconsin firms, FDA records show.
The plan approval also comes nearly a year since those firms launched a global recall of tens of millions of wipes, swabs and other products at the FDA’s urging because of potential contamination with Bacillus cereus bacteria and other organisms.
For Shanoop and Sandra Kothari, parents of the Houston toddler, it makes a difficult anniversary even tougher.
“You’ve got something hanging over you that’s not anything but a constant reminder of the loss,” said Jim Perdue, the Texas lawyer representing the Kotharis in a lawsuit filed in February.
Harrison Kothari, 2, died Dec. 1, 2010, after contracting a meningitis infection caused by Bacillus cereus. His parents blame tainted Triad wipes for the death.
H&P Industries officials and lawyers did not respond to msnbc.com requests for comment about the company’s future plans. Nor would they comment on industrial real estate listings that show that the firm’s 285,000-square-foot plant at 700 W. North Shore Drive in Hartland is for sale for $14.2 million. A representative for The Dickman Company Inc. on Wednesday said the site was an active listing.
The FDA has a mixed record with enforcing good practices at the Wisconsin medical supply plant and other manufacturers of medical wipes. Records obtained by msnbc.com showed officials failed to issue warning letters or demand other sanctions despite documented problems with sterilization and contamination dating back to 2009, and nearly a decade earlier. When officials finally did investigate, they demanded seizure of more than $6 million in H&P Industries products and, later, the plant closure.
H&P Industries was only the first medical supply firm to recall potentially tainted products this year. In September, Professional Disposables International Inc., or PDI, of Orangeburg, N.Y. voluntarily recalled all lots of five different kinds of non-sterile alcohol prep padsbecause of potential contamination with Bacillus cereus.
In April, Rockline Industries of Springdale, Ark., recalled nearly a million units of baby wipes, including brands sent to Walmart and Winn Dixie Stores because of potential contamination with Enterobacter gergoviae, a bacterium that can cause serious infections in babies and people with compromised immune systems. As first reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Rockline Industries had similar trouble with contamination dating back to 2006, but the FDA took no enforcement action.
The FDA’s crackdown on H&P Industries and the Triad Group came only after msnbc.com reports sparked the interest of Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., who demanded explanations from the FDA after residents of their states said they were sickened by bacterial contamination from alcohol prep wipes, swabs and other products recalled by the Wisconsin firms.
Under terms of the consent decree agreed to by H&P Industries and the FDA, the reconditioning plans are supposed to describe specific steps for correcting bacterial contamination and other violations.
The family-owned firms, run by brothers David R. Haertle and Eric C. Haertle and their sister, Donna L. Petroff, were shuttered in June after world-wide recalls of alcohol wipes and swabs and povidone iodine products found to be potentially contaminated with dangerous bacteria, including Bacillus cereus.
The consent decree lays out specific steps the company must follow in order to resume operations, including revamped quality assurance steps and new management to oversee it. If the firms fail to comply, the company and its individual officers can face steep fines and other sanctions. But it doesn’t reveal how the company plans to meet those demands.
The firms face at least 10 lawsuits in several states filed by families who claim contaminated alcohol pads led to serious infections and, in at least three cases, deaths. The Kotharis were the first to seek legal action.
Other alleged deaths include a 69-year-old Alabama woman, Ruby Hutcheson, who died in August days before she was scheduled to give a deposition in her suit against H&P Industries. The family of a 66-year-old Illinois man, Garry Rockett, also claimed in a July lawsuit that he died in 2009 after being treated for cancer using contaminated Triad wipes.
The latest lawsuit was filed in November by a 57-year-old Washington, D.C., multiple sclerosis patient who said he developed a Bacillus cereus infection after using tainted wipes made by H&P Industries and the Triad Group and supplied by Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals. William Preston West Jr. is seeking $10 million in compensatory and punitive damages; his wife, Carolyn B. Gleason, is seeking $1 million.
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Where's the wink?
I wonder who they paid OFF!!! The FDA should be ashamed of it's self!
I love when people make the mast asinine comments about something they absolutely Zero knowledge about which in this case is the Pharma-Consumer Products industry.
1st of all I have worked in the Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Medical Industry's for over 20 years. 1) The FDA shut them down, which is called a consent decree (483). 2) The company now has to develop and remediation plan that is developed along with the FDA to assure product compliance, patient/user safety and efficacy and re-design the facility/QA-QC laboratories. 3) By going through this remediation process the company will create hundreds of high paying jobs (consultants, engineers, Quality Professionals) and the most important thing stay in business and saving the jobs of the non college educated production workers that need the company the most.
So to all you non pharma people who just complain and offer no real solutions research first before you make a fool of yourselves.
flash8
Perhaps you should READ the article.
Nope they have ALREADY come up with a remediation process and it has nothing to do with redesign, per the article. It deals with "trade secret" process to reuse the existing $6 million in tainted products.
The facility, where the tainted wipes were CONTAMINATED, is up for sale. The "high paying jobs" of consultants, engineers and (cough cough) Quality professionals were the CAUSE of the problem. When the FDA ran the inspection of the facility they found that those same "highly paid" individuals could not read/speak/understand English or for that matter FOLLOW the procedures that were designed to prevent contamination.
flash8,
You better go back and read about this "big-pharma" company again. Triad was a family operation headed by two brothers. No pharma, no medical, no quality control background in the family. Company payroll seems to have been 40 to 50, between two facilities. Equipment was acknowledged in earlier articles as being bought used. An earlier FDA survey had identified the bacteria problem, but after one year of continued production and distribution the brothers had neither addressed the problem or developed a plan for sterilizing the equipment.
Now you honestly expect us to shut up and trust that these same people will actually spend the money for qualified professional staff? You expect that they will develop a SECRET plan to safely remediate the potentially contaminated product? Will you be happy if more people are made ill or die due to a product sold to protect them?
As for the $14.2million real estate, the price seems at least $10million fat, assuming at least 200 acres of land included.
Let's see, "reconditioning plan". Hmm. I GOT IT! New packaging! Whatta great plan! WTF?!
Nice of the author to go for the dramatic: "comes a year this month after the death of a 2-year-old Houston boy, Harrison Kothari, from an infection caused by the same bacterium detected in alcohol prep wipes made and distributed by H&P Industries and the Triad Group. At least 11 deaths, including Harry’s, have been tied to alcohol prep wipes, including those made by the Wisconsin firms, FDA records show."
Brings up Harrison died from the same bacterium, but apparently the wipes made by the Triad group did not kill him. And the author only later tells us that only 3 of the deaths were connected to alcohol wipes connected to the Triad group.
"alcohol prep wipes" Let's call it "alcohol perp wipes."
Hi Shot a Man,
Thanks for reading the story. I'm the editor of the Vitals blog. I just want to clarify that we brought up Harrison Kothari because his family does indeed believe his death was caused by bacteria on the wipes made by H&P Industries and the Triad Group. In fact, they've filed a lawsuit to that effect. Here's a link to an earlier story we did on the him: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41588330/ns/health-infectious_diseases/t/parents-blame-toddlers-death-tainted-alcohol-wipes/
Nothing like the FDA to make an example.
At least someone is looking out for poor defenseless businesses who have no voice.
Close down the FDA.
They take fees that are really bribes from all the big pharma companies.
Now this. My husband, a cancer patient, must have shots every day. And use wipes. Where will we go to buy them?
Oh, let's take this company's word for it that things are now O.K. Let's believe this company, because after all, companies are persons. Wait a minute: as a person, can't this company, which hid evidence of contaminated wipes in the last few years, be held as criminals for MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE? The Company is a Person. BOOK 'EM.
Can't you just get a bottle of rubbing alcohol and a box of sterile pads? I'm not trying to be smart and sassy, but are you (or anybody for that matter) absolutely TIED to having to buy these pre-made products?
Marilyn,
Portion control, accountability of supplies, convenience, cross contamination, liability (oops on that one I guess)
It is more convenient to simply open a single use wipe than open both a sterile pad and a container of alcohol.
By having a preset single use item they can account for use of supplies. As part of that accountability they can, in theory, be sure they aren't leaving something in the patient... not their primary use but it's a bean counting thing.
If they used a container of alcohol there is a chance of contamination (gee there's a thought) between uses.
Marilyn,
she does have a point though. Corporations want to be people so the law must apply to them equally as a person. They committed some level or murder or man slaughter and should be taken to court on those charges. Maybe once an entire company gets thrown in jail for something like this the retarded Citizens United case will be repealed once the businesses realize they just opened themselves up a proverbial can of worms.
Marilyn,
You missed one small point. The bacteria involved here are NOT killed by the concentration of alcohol sold over the counter (unless you include Everclear, 190 proof or 95% alcohol). That was Triad's problem. They were actually spreading these bugs, on their "sterile" wipes.
If anyone needs definitive proof that the FDA has sold its collective soul to the devil named "sneaky weasel pharmaceutical, medical equipment, and medical supplies manufacturers", then this is it . . .
[SOURCE: http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/28/9778035-maker-of-tainted-wipes-gets-fda-nod-toward-reopening ]
The key phrases are “reconditioning plan” and "to rework more than $6 million of seized medical supplies" . . .
Diligent readers will remember that it was just a month or two ago that the FDA cited Snokist Growers in Washington state for improperly "reconditioning" and "reworking" applesauce and other canned fruit products that were contaminated with potentially lethal mold and fungi, some of which was discovered because it made children who ate public school lunches sick . . .
The "reconditioning" and "reworking" strategy used by Snokist Growers basically involved scraping all the visible mold and fungi off the tops of large containers and plastic sacks of applesauce and other products, followed by heating the remaining contaminated applesauce and mixing it with enough "good" applesauce so that the percentage of contaminated product was sufficiently low . . .
The FDA specifically explained that heat was not sufficient to render the toxins already produced by the growing mold and mildew safe, which should be obvious to anyone who read about the contaminated dry dog food that killed hundreds of dogs, where the cause was bad corn and other grains that were contaminated with some of the same mold and fungi found in the contaminated Snowkist Growers applesauce, and the FDA specifically prohibited Snokist Growers from blending toxic applesauce in small amounts with "good" applesauce as a strategy for "reworking" the toxic applesauce to achieve "acceptable" amounts of total contamination . . .
[NOTE: Regarding dry dog food, it is baked in a way similar to cookies and breakfast cereal, and if baking does not make aspergillus toxins non-toxic, which is a fact, then this is more than enough information to enable one to connect the dots with respect to heat and aspergillus toxins, which is something I learned from a veterinarian, along with some vastly disturbing information about how truly gnarly aspergillus toxins are. Her perspective is that aspergillus tainted corn and other grains should be incinerated, because they are just as likely to injure and kill wild animals and birds as they are to injure and kill pets when used in pet food . . . ]
There was a massive mallard duck die-off several years ago in Idaho, where the mallard ducks ate corn and other grains that were contaminated with some of the same mold and fungi found in the Snokist Growers applesauce, primarily aspergillus toxin, which as noted is gnarly stuff . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus
Focusing back on the patently insane idea that the FDA has devised to allow H&P Industries and Triad to "recondition" and to "rework" some or all of the tainted medical supplies that just a few months ago the FDA had US Marshal Service seize--after among other things inspecting the various H&P Industries and Triad manufacturing and reprocessing plants and finding them filthy, contaminated, badly maintained, and so forth--it is all the worse because the according to the MSNBC.com news report the FDA is refusing to provide specific information to the public on the scheme H&P Industries and Triad have devised to "recondition" and to "rework" the toxic medical supplies . . .
Explained as simply as possible, the FDA closed a company for egregious filthiness and manufacturing vastly dangerous medical supplies, which the FDA had US Marshals seize, but now based apparently on the "out of sight, out of mind" rule, everything is spanky and what possibly could make more sense than to let the company which never bothered to keep its manufacturing facilities clean and did little if any quality control testing embark on a new plan to "recondition" and to "rework" medical supplies that one might suppose will be returned by US Marshals?
What possible guarantee can the FDA provide to patients, doctors, nurses, clinics, and hospitals that any of the "reconditioned" and "reworked" medical supplies are any less filthy and contaminated with deadly bacteria, toxins, and viruses than they were when the US Marshal Service seized the products?
And regarding the specifics of the "reconditioning" and "reworking", how does someone do this for a tiny packet that contains a toxic 2" by 2" cotton wipe that is soaked with what was supposed to be uncontaminated alcohol?
Do you ship it to a third-world country where slave workers individually unpack each cotton wipe by hand and then toss it in a big vat where no telling what is done to it?
If it makes the concept easier to understand, consider that it is a Q-Tip®, and then ponder how you might "recondition" or "rework" a Q-Tip® . . .
Or consider that it is a single individually wrapped Kleenex® tissue, and then ponder how you might "recondition" or "rework" it?
Or consider that it is a piece of Juicy Fruit® gum that somehow was contaminated with rat poop, and then ponder how you might "recondition" or "rework" it?
How does that work?
And how do you like the idea of having absolutely no clue regarding (a) how the toxic medical supplies are "reconditioned" or "reworked" and (b) whether the medical supplies you purchase or are used by your doctor or nurse were new products made under carefully monitored quality control or simply are a repackaged filthy mess?
For the ladies, it is important to understand that some of the medical supplies manufactured by H&P Industries and Triad are lubricants used by medical doctors and nurses during gynecological exams, and while it might be difficult to "recondition" and "rework" individually packed tiny cotton swabs, it is an entirely different matter when the toxic substance is in big tubes that are easy to squeeze, one by one, into a big vat where lots of FUN stuff can be done using creative chemistry and physics . . .
Do you really want some of that stuff squirted inside your sacred woman's area?
The thinking here in the sound isolation studio is PROBABLY NOT!
Summarizing, the real news is not that the FDA is allowing H&P Industries and Triad to move one step closer to reopening . . .
Instead, the real news is that the FDA has gone patently insane and actually is ready, willing, and able to allow H&P Industries and Triad to "recondition" and to "rework" toxic medical supplies that just a few months ago the FDA had US Marshals seize for being a clear and present danger to the health and well-being of the public . . .
In the grand scheme of everything it certainly is gracious to believe that a bunch of egregious sneaky weasels have had an epiphany and subsequently have changed everything they do toward the worthy goal of being good citizens and following every single rule for the safe manufacture of medical supplies, but best wishes on the likelihood of that actually happening . . .
It is no different than expecting the Red Chinese to have an epiphany that leads them to stop devising new ways to injure and kill pets with toxic pet food and pet treats. . .
It is no different than expecting the Red Chinese to have an epiphany that leads them to stop devising new ways to injure and kill babies with toxic infant formula . . .
The fact of the matter is that the only epiphany is "we got caught", and all it does is encourage less transparency based on the patently goofy idea that if nobody observes and identifies the sneaky weaseling, then the sneaky weasels can do even more of it but never get caught . . .
Common sense makes it abundantly clear that something is badly wrong when the FDA adamantly refuses to let the public know precisely what H&P Industries and Triad are planning to do in their efforts to "recondition" and to "rework" toxic medical supplies for sale to the public . . .
The only practical inferences one can make based on the FDA refusing to make the information available to the public are (a) that the "reconditioning" and "reworking" schemes are vastly disturbing from the perspectives of chemistry, biology, and physics and (b) that the medical supplies being "reconditioned" and "reworked" are used in medical procedures that never should be performed with "reconditioned" and "reworked" medical supplies . . .
Yet another problem is that it is quite likely that none of the "reconditioned" and "reworked" medical supplies will have "H&P Industries" or "Triad" on the labels, because they will be repackaged using the names of "shell companies" or third-party distributors, so there will be no easy way for anyone to avoid the "reconditioned" and "reworked" medical supplies . . .
This action by the FDA is patently evil, and it makes it abundantly clear that the FDA has no interest whatsoever in ensuring that medical supplies in our great nation are safe, because nobody with a functioning brain attempts to "recondition" or to "rework" POISON, really . . .
Really! :-o
P. S. The fact that H&P Industries and Triad actually want to "recondition" and to "rework" toxic medical supplies makes it abundantly clear that they simply do not get it, which tends strongly to suggest that there is no lesson learned but more importantly there is no real incentive to do anything differently, because if H&P Industries and Triad are allowed by the FDA to "recondition" and to "rework" the toxic medical supplies, then nothing has changed in any real way . . .
This is how politicians and business have always done things when they get into hot water. Get in trouble with the law (corporations)? Change your name and headquarters. Down in the polls? Change your slogans or your ideologies to try and get more support.
You are clearly passionate, but you know very little about the FDA or what "re-working" or "reconditioning" means. The fact that you don't know what the processes may involve means jack squat, as you wouldn't understand it anyhow, and it's none of your business. All such product will have to be tested and evaluated before release in a manner that satisfies FDA inspectors. And the facilities will be under either constant (live-in FDA oversight) or greatly increased inspection schedules until there is repeated objective evidence that the problems have been effectively resolved.
FDA is the most widely respected drug and device regulator in the world.
@Roger:
You wrote this:
This is the typically arrogant and condescending perspective of the sneaky weasels who view the common folk as ignorant peasants who more than anything need to do as they are told and to ask no questions . . .
In this instance, the primary problem is that H&P Industries and The Triad Group just a few months ago were responsible for filthy manufacturing plants with no quality control that produced contaminated medical supplies that injured and killed patients, and once this was discovered the FDA had no option but to take the extreme action of having US Marshals seize the contaminated medical supplies to protect the health, well-being, and safety of the public . . .
With the exception of the assertion that the common folk simply are too ignorant to understand "reconditioning" and "reworking", it all reads very nicely in terms of "we make the rules and all you need to do is to 'shut-up' and do what we tell you to do, because we know more than you do, so trust us", which is the hallmark of sneaky weaseling . . .
For how many days and weeks did the Rocky Ford cantaloupe growers say that there was nothing wrong with their cantaloupes?
Yet, when the evidence became public, the fact was they they had purchased used manufacturing equipment that was contaminated but they never bothered to clean it . . .
No doubt, they probably have a plan for the future, but what about the people who died?
The FDA certainly does some good work, and the Congress certainly needs to increase the FDA, USDA, and US Customs Service budgets by perhaps 1,000 times the current amounts so that they can inspect everything rather than perhaps only the suspected worst 1-percent of stuff, but even when there is an epiphany, the fact of the matter is that the FDA does not have the resources to do intensive 24x7 inspections of anything . . .
Yet another fact of the matter is that a few common folks have sufficient sense to connect the dots with respect to manufactured and processed food routinely being "reconditioned" and "reworked", which basically provides the clue that if you want applesauce, then the best strategy is to get some fresh apples and to make your own applesauce, because otherwise it might look like applesauce, but so long as the USDA and FDA allow "reconditioning" and "reworking", who knows what actually is in the so-called "applesauce" . . .
Even then, if for example you purchase flour, which in an Utopian world actually would be flour, there is no guarantee at the dawn of the early-21st century that it has not been augmented or enhanced with melamine or no telling what else the Red Chinese have devised in their latest ongoing efforts to injure and kill every American citizen and legal resident . . .
The problem for the FDA, USDA, and US Customs Service is that they simply do not have the mindset required to detect and to identify egregious sneaky weaseling, so what happens is that egregious sneaky weaseling for the most part is discovered and identified only after it injures and kills some of the people of our great nation . . .
Basically, it is a matter of old dogs and new tricks, and the best way to explain it is with the story of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis . . .
[SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis ]
This was over a century and five decades ago, and today even though there are clearly posted signs in every doctor's office, patient room, and clinic regarding the vast importance of hand washing, for the most part hand washing continues to be ignored and the foamy hand cleaner stuff is used instead, which works in some respects but over the day basically maps to putting perhaps hundreds of layers of foamy stuff on top of even more foamy stuff, which among other things is the reason that there are so many problems with MRSA and nosocomial infections, in general . . .
Hand washing and basic personal hygiene tends to be an "all or nothing" type of activity, where it mostly is a matter of whether people actually understand that there are microscopic entities which are highly dangerous to human life, and while it reads nicely to suggest that the folks at H&P Industries and Triad who allowed their manufacturing facilities to become filthy toxic breeding grounds have had a sua sponte epiphany; found Jesus; and saw the Light; are you willing to bet your life on it?
If an adult thinks it is stupid to wash hands after taking a poop, do you really think anything is going to change their perspective over the long run?
What about the French manufacturer of breast implants that used industrial grade silicone rather than medical grade silicone, which currently is mapping to recalling perhaps hundreds of thousands of breast implants, where in this instance "recalling" maps to surgically removing the contaminated and badly manufactured breast implants and either returning everything as near to what it originally was or replacing them with supposedly "better" breast implants?
The prevailing logic among fervent capitalists is that when the expense of getting caught engaging in egregious sneaky weaseling is so high, the sneaky weasels have an epiphany and sua sponte become good citizens and stop engaging in sneaky weasels, but best wishes on that perspective, because it is based on flawed logic, since what it says in plain English is that the way to get good quality control is to start with bad quality control; to get caught sneaky weaseling; to have an epiphany toward the goal of avoiding prison time and fines; and then everything soon will be spanky . . .
Spanky! :-o
Roger,
"The fact that you don't know what the processes may involve means jack squat, as you wouldn't understand it anyhow, and it's none of your business."
Tell me that the next time I, or a loved one, is being prepped for an injection or surgery and I see Triad products being used. Roger, this IS fundamentally my business. Products that have been positively linked to infections, hospitalizations and deaths, being remediated IS fundamentally the public's business and should be open to public review. This company and its ownership have demonstrated ignorance and/or negligence in the past, we have no reason to believe that they are any more remediated than their product currently is.
@Bill:
This is the way it works in "The Age of Sneaky Weaseling™", where the general perspective of the sneaky weasels is arrogant and condescending in the extreme, since your health, well-being, and safety are secondary to the almighty dollar . . .
The fact of the matter is that if the folks running H&P Industries and The Triad Group had been highly focused on manufacturing plant cleanliness, quality assurance, and quality control, then none of this filthy mess would have happened, but this was not the case, and it is fully documented in the various news reports, FDA recalls, and federal court proceedings . . .
If the folks running H&P Industries and The Triad Group actually had an epiphany, then the FDA would not have needed to get a court order to have US Marshals seize all the filthy, contaminated "medical supplies", and the so-called "path forward" would not be done under direct federal court supervision . . .
And for reference, it is not simply a matter of avoiding products under the H&P Industries and The Triad Group brands, because there is a virtual festival of third-party distributors and other companies, including the following:
[SOURCE: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm247743.htm ]
[SOURCE: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm239219.htm ]
[SOURCE: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm239319.htm ]
[SOURCE: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm269800.htm ]
Regarding the involvement of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, it is possible that at the request of attorneys for the defendants (H&P Industries and The Triad Group) the federal court has ordered the FDA not to make public any of the "reconditioning" and "reworking" procedures proposed by the defendants . . .
It certainly is odd that the FDA would refuse to provide the public with information regarding the proposed "reconditioning" and "reworking" procedures, as well as how any "reconditioned" and "reworked" medical supplies will be tested and verified . . .
As can be determined easily by examining the list of third-party and other companies whose products included medical supplies manufactured by H&P Industries and The Triad Group, these contaminated medical supplies were pervasive throughout the healthcare industry in our great nation, and in some instances probably worldwide . . .
One might hope that all the contaminated medical supplies have been recalled and are no longer in supply cabinets in doctor's offices, clinics, hospitals, and homes anywhere on this planet, but best wishes on that being the reality, because yet another reality at the dawn of the early-21st century is that few people ever take the time to examine everything in vast detail, and while in some respects it might be relatively easy for people to remember H&P Industries and The Triad Group, what about all the other third-party vendors and other companies?
What is the probability that anyone actually will take the time to check the label on all alcohol swabs, iodine swabs and solution, surgical prep kits, cough syrups, cold remedies, obstetrical and gynecological lubricants, hemorrhoid suppositories and cleaning products, and so forth and so on to ensure that none of them are distributed or manufactured by H&P Industries and The Triad Group or any of the 40 or so third-party vendors and other companies in the aforementioned list?
Best wishes on that happening . . .
I do not have hemorrhoids, and being a man I do not have a vagina, but I am a curious fellow who among other subjects studied Biology, Chemistry, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Mathematics, and Physics in college, and as a thought exercise I have been pondering how one might go about "reconditioning" and "reworking" an individually packaged suppository or a tube of obstetrical and gynecological lubricant to ensure that it does not contain patently dangerous bacteria, viruses, and other toxins and poisons?
How does that work, and do I really want to use that stuff in or on any of my orifices? :-o
The public won't be allowed to know how they reworked contaminated products??? For medical use???? Are they f*#!^*g stupid?????? H&P Industries and Triad count more than the entire American public's health??? Something/somebody at the FDA needs to change, pronto!!! Isn't there anybody looking out for decent standards in the industry??
Sure. Use wipes made by or distributed by Triad, if you want a lawsuit on your hands.
They are based in Wisc. where there is no regulation.
I have the feeling this is just like the peanut butter factory in Americus, Ga. They killed at least eight people because they were too sorry to fix a leak in the roof. If corporations are people then I expect this "person" to assume responsibility for its crimes. First up dissolve company and distribute its assets to its victims. Next jail the folks with decision making authority. Make sure the penalties for this type of crap can only be described as draconian. The management knew of this. It is called manslaughter, prosecute!