The company, AM2PAT, is the subject of a criminal investigation.

The company’s president has fled to India.

The company allegedly falsified documents to make it seem as if required sterility tests had been done.

The company’s “chief microbiologist” was a teenage high-school dropout.

The company’s “clean room” was ventilated by an ordinary room fan.

One piece of lab equipment that could detect contamination was broken when investigators visited, and another had been broken for a year.

A 2005 complaint to the FDA claimed that food particles were found in a heparin syringe.

Beginning in 2007, physicians and clinics began reporting orange specks, wispy debris, and yellow-orange sediment floating in the syringes. The liquid was described as tan, orange, muddy, and dingy brown.

There’s a story out of Raleigh, North Carolina about a local company accused of selling tainted syringes filled with heparin or saline. These syringes have so far been linked to 5 deaths. Among the revelations in this article from the Raleigh News & Observer

As a teen, “chief microbiologist” would have been my dream job. Unfortunately, I failed to drop out of high school, so I guess I was unqualified.

(Hat tip: Weird Universe)

—Bob Finn

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