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
    191·
    10 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
      13·
      10 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.

    • LmaydevEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      I could just be they breakdown slowly and weren’t picked up by tests.