Covidien was forced into a voluntary recall of 32 lots of its Monoject pre-filled heparin syringes by tainted supplies from one of its vendors.
It turns out that Scientific Protein Laboratories LLC provided the Mansfield-based devices behemoth with potentially lethal tainted heparin sodium USP.
Though no-one administered with the Covidien product reported suffering adverse effects, patients injected with other companies’ products containing the contaminant died or suffered serious injury.