Baxter dialyzers
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Planned closure of the firm's Ronneby, Sweden and Miami Lakes, Florida plants, which made recently discontinued A-series hemodialyzer components, is announced Nov. 26. The Swedish filter plant and the Florida filter fiber facility employed 158 and 98 people, respectively. A small team will remain at both locations to continue ongoing investigations into more than 50 deaths worldwide that appear linked to a processing fluid residue ("The Gray Sheet" Nov. 12, 2001, p. 16). Baxter has agreed to pay the families of 10 fatalities in Spain $289,000 each under a settlement agreement; the families are asking the Spanish government to drop a planned lawsuit. A Swedish criminal investigation is ongoing...
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