For the third consecutive quarter, more than one million Class I units were recalled during 2019’s Q1, according to the Stericycle Expert Solutions (NASDAQ: SRCL) first quarter Recall Index. While medical device recalls in specific dropped 41.4% to 164, the lowest since the fourth quarter of 2017, the number of devices affected by the average recall […]
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161m medical device units recalled in Q4 2018
The number of medical device units recalled in the fourth quarter of 2018 skyrocketed by 449% to 161 million from the same quarter a year ago, according to a report by Stericycle Expert Solutions. Those figures made it the second highest quarter for medtech units recalled since at least 2004. Medical device recalls fell by 1%, lower […]
