A shameful corporations' punishment
In 2023, an article by ProPublica and posted in Well Street, highlighted Philips Respironics, a manufacturer of CPAP breathing machines used by infants and adults, including hundreds of thousands of military veterans.
The company's efforts to make their CPAPs quieter by packing them with industrial foam led to the machines spewing various particles and chemicals like formaldehyde into users' masks. Sadly, this led to diagnoses of illnesses, including lung and liver cancers for some users.
For years, Philips got away with marketing and selling their breathing machines globally while consumer complaints were filed, but a recent agreement with the federal government has stopped the sale of their CPAP devices in the US.
It could be years before Philips can resume selling the machines, not to mention repairing their reputational damage. Sleep scientist Dr. Radhika Breaden says, "They used to be one of the most respected industry leaders. They have lost the trust of many of our sleep patients and many professionals in the sleep field."
Read the details in ProPublica:
https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-agrees-to-stop-selling-sleep-...
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Sanatana
So good to know. I let my brother know. He has sleep apnea and uses a CPAP machine. Thank you!
Evangel
Why are millions in tax payer dollars being spent on an FDA that ignored all the complaints and the evidence? Were they paid to stay quiet? How many other product complaints are they ignoring?
Thank god we still have a free and open press willing to expose a corporation's bad deeds. Without ProPublica's and Pittsburg Post Gazette's muckraking, innocent people would still be inhaling poisons through these machines.
Slipstream
I'm so glad they won't be selling their killer product in the U.S. any longer. It's too bad it's taken over 10 years, and who knows how many deaths, before they've finally been stopped. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who are unknowingly using that machine so thank you so much for posting this.