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S. 540, The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009 (1 comment ↓ | 3 wiki edits)
S. 540 would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices.
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elmo4588
(logged in user) April 21, 2009, 12:55pm (report abuse)This bill needs to pass, as currently medical device manufactures are free from liability
on products approved by the FDA. Even if these products have never been tested in humans or if the product was modified, their is no liability to the device manufacturer. They can take any product and as long as the FDA approves it, you can do nothing about it.
One example is the certain lead wires that recently had fracture issues and the number of people that were effected by this can only sit back and do nothing. Getting shocked at 700 volts, repeatedly, thinking that you were dying, and having your family suffer thru it. Real people died from this, and it could of all been avoided.
Medical device companies should not have blanket protection. What about consumer protection?