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Article: Baxter settles case on pumps: FDA suit resolved; $70 million tab seen.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- June 30, 2006
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Byline: Bruce Japsen
Jun. 30--Baxter International Inc. Thursday settled U.S. Justice Department allegations that two of its popular medication delivery pumps were flawed and violated federal law.
In a 30-page agreement approved Thursday by U.S. District Judge Wayne Anderson in Chicago, the Deerfield-based medical products maker said it would stop manufacturing and distributing the pumps until the company fixes problems that appear to have caused some of the devices to stop operating.
The devices were identified as the Colleague Volumetric Infusion Pump and the Syndeo PCA Syringe Pump, both made in Singapore by Baxter.
Baxter said it ...