Why Knowing And Recording Recalls Are Important? Because Companies Continue To Sell Recalled Products Elsewhere, Like DePuy's Pinnacle Hip Implants.

I was reading a bunch of reports at ICIJ after posting the "Implant Files" on Meddesktop, regarding dangerous business of implant business. It is about how companies continue to sell recalled devices elsewhere, like DePuy, a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson seem to have done.

I started reading a report on hip implants, and others, it is evident that profits are more important than patients health for some, even Physicians who are more like sound pieces for the industry than healthcare personnel, like in the video below.
So Paying attention to recalls are important as most recall reports seem to be cryptic and even sometimes hiding the name of the perpetrator, just showing the recall is from the distributor. Like in the case of a recent recall, "Asclemed USA / Enovachem Recalls of Dyural-40 and Dyural-80 Convenience Kits Containing Recalled Sodium Chloride Injection"  The confusion could easily be seen in the FDA Text, both the names are there. It is good to see the heading as the name Enovachem is on the package. But it also allows the original company to keep its name clean, and perhaps open another DBA name.
This is a just a blog reporting recalls we seem important but after reading these reports, like the Second Billion, we will develop a more robust recalls information system, covering the globe as the name implies, RecallsGlobal. So that people like Vijay Vojhala, have another resource to gain information from.

In late 2011, three years after he was implanted with a Johnson & Johnson replacement hip, a Mumbai-based hospital equipment salesman named Vijay Vojhala went to a medical product conference 800 miles away from his home.

Even with the new hip, Vojhala walked with a severe limp that seemed to be getting worse. At the event, an orthopedic surgeon he was friendly with delivered shocking news: Vojhala’s replacement hip had been recalled in the U.S. and other countries more than a year earlier because of serious safety concerns. Vojhala would soon discover that metal shavings from the hip had leaked into his bloodstream. Continuing problems, he said, have cost him his ability to work.