Update from the Food and Drug Agency comes days after Philips said it would stop selling the devices in the U.S.

FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines::Update from the Food and Drug Agency comes days after Philips said it would stop selling the devices in the U.S.

  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    7 months ago

    Wow, how can this have been an oversight? Let’s just blow a bunch of microplastics down everyone’s throats.

    Does not even make sense from a business standpoint, if you kill your customers you won’t have customers.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      Killing your customers slowly can be extremely profitable, and is preferred to not monetizing the poison at all (tobacco, alcohol, opioids, sugar, fossil fuels).

      If this happened after 20 or 30 years it would be considered normal wear and tear, and well beyond the “usable life” of a product in the age of planned obsolescence.

      • glitch1985@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        There are cpap cleaners that use Ozone which breaks down the foam faster than the manufacturer thought possible.