Tainted Heparin-Filled Syringes Associated With Several Deaths, Infections

Bacteria-tainted syringes, pre-filled with heparin and saline, have been pegged as the cause of five deaths and hundreds of life-threatening infections. Two former employees of AM2PAT, a North Carolina device manufacturer that is the subject of a criminal investigation, pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to commit a number of federal offenses after having shipped the tainted syringes to several states in 2007.
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