Summary Company Announcement Date: April 10, 2020 FDA Publish Date: April 10, 2020 Product Type: Food & Beverages Reason for Announcement: Recall Reason Description Undeclared milk Company Name: Whole Foods Market Brand Name: Brand Name(s) Whole Foods Market Product Description: Product Description Minestrone Soup Company Announcement Whole Foods Market stores are voluntarily recalling Minestrone Soup…
How You Can Make a Difference During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Image The COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges in our everyday lives. As we each do our part to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease, we look to the helpers all around us and wonder if we, too, could do more. Here are some ways you and your family can help. Protect Yourself and Others…
Darknet Vendor Arrested on Distribution and Money Laundering Charges
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeEastern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, April 9, 2020 ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Maryland man was arrested today on charges related to his alleged unlawful distribution of medications through the Darknet, and money laundering involving Bitcoin. According to court documents, William Anderson Burgamy IV, 32, of Hanover, recently posted on his Darknet…
Pentax Medical Company Agrees to Pay $43 Million to Resolve Criminal Investigation Concerning Misbranded Endoscopes
Department of Justice FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, April 7, 2020 Company Shipped Medical Devices Without Approved Instructions for Use and Failed to File FDA-Required Adverse Event Reports of Serious Infections Pentax Medical Company will pay $43 million to resolve criminal charges based on the company’s shipment of four types of endoscopes for 18 months without FDA-cleared instructions for…
Nurse Given Prison Sentence for Drug Theft and Tampering
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeNorthern District of Iowa FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, January 28, 2020 Stole Pain and Other Medications from at Least Fourteen Patients A nurse who tampered with drugs given to patients and stole pain medications from patients in her care was sentenced today to 4 years in federal prison. Katie Louise Boll, age 31,…
Manchester Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Federal Agent
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Maine FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, March 2, 2020 Bangor, Maine: A Manchester, Maine man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Bangor to threatening a federal agent, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced. Cody Lyon, 24, pleaded guilty to three counts of transmitting threatening interstate communications. According to court records, in…
H&C Food Inc. Recalls Enoki Mushroom Because of Possible Health Risk
Summary Company Announcement Date: April 07, 2020 FDA Publish Date: April 07, 2020 Product Type: Food & Beverages Reason for Announcement: Recall Reason Description Potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes Company Name: H&C Food Inc. Brand Name: Brand Name(s) H&C Food Inc. Product Description: Product Description Enoki mushrooms Company Announcement H&C Food Inc. of…
Boston Scientific Corporation Recalls Imager II Angiographic Catheters Due to Tip Detachment
The FDA has identified this as a Class I recall, the most serious type of recall. Use of these devices may cause serious injuries or death. Recalled Product Boston Scientific Corporation IMAGER II 5F Angiographic Catheters See lot numbers below under Full List of Affected Devices Distribution Dates: July 16, 2018 to November 26, 2019…
HOPE Clinic Physician Pleads Guilty
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeSouthern District of West Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, January 27, 2020 BECKLEY, W.Va. – A North Carolina physician pled guilty to a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Roswell Tempest Lowry, M.D., 85, pled guilty to interstate travel in aid of a racketeering enterprise. “Like I’ve said before, medical professionals…
Founder and Former Chairman of the Board of Insys Therapeutics Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Massachusetts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, January 23, 2020 Defendant sentenced for his role in bribing practitioners to prescribe highly addictive pain medication, often when medically unnecessary BOSTON – The founder of Insys Therapeutics, John Kapoor, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for orchestrating a scheme to bribe practitioners…