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Orthopedics Accounted for 12 Percent of Medical Device Recalls

May 24, 2012
About 12 percent of medical device recalls were attributed to orthopedic therapeutic devices from 2005 to 2010. Between 2005 and 2010, the U.S. recorded 4,343 medical device recalls with more than 800 companies initiating recalls.
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