Former executives of Billerica company charged with marketing faulty lead test devices
Children, as well as pregnant people and others, faced serious health risks because of the inaccurate test results, prosecutors said.
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Children, as well as pregnant people and others, faced serious health risks because of the inaccurate test results, prosecutors said.
Former executives of Magellan Diagnostics are accused of knowingly selling faulty lead test devices for years.
Three former executives of a company that makes machines that test lead levels in humans deliberately concealed that the devices produced falsely low results.
Former-executives at Massachusetts-based Magellan Diagnostics, Inc. were charged this week for allegedly hiding a problem with lead tests that produced low results.
The devices in question tested lead levels through blood draws or fingersticks and accounted for more than half of all blood lead tests conducted in the U.S. from 2013 through 2017, prosecutors said.