Chapter 453: If you fall behind, you should be eliminated
No one could have imagined that at such a moment, Feinuo would actually do something like this!
To standardize the cobalt-chromium alloy market, this standard is really well used.
Moreover, the U.S. FDA has issued a public statement stating that the problem with cobalt-chromium alloys is mainly due to the lack of standardization of cobalt-chromium alloy prosthetic products and the lack of strict review of cobalt-chromium alloys in the market, which has led to this series of situations.
This explanation is very general and even vague, explaining the hazards of cobalt-chromium alloy as the reason for the uneven quality of this product.
The U.S. Food and Drug Safety Administration sent several teams to establish a Cobalt-Chromium Alloy Specification Committee and began various investigations. The person cooperating with the investigation turned out to be Pierce, the head of Hankison Company, a subsidiary of the Ferno Group.
This seems very meaningful!
In the first week after the committee was established, obvious results were achieved on the issue of cobalt-chromium alloys.
Within a week, a specialized quality inspection team under the committee conducted spot checks on more than a dozen small medical equipment companies that produce cobalt-chromium alloy artificial prostheses. After in-depth inspections, they found serious problems with their products, which affected the order of the medical prosthesis market.
, the FDA strictly dealt with the related products of these companies, canceling the listing qualifications of their related products, directly canceling the company's business license, and requiring these companies to resubmit their applications after rectification.
This series of reviews of companies related to cobalt-chromium alloys has relieved many people who are paying attention to this matter.
Because they still believe in the FDA. After all, this is a national supervision and administration agency, and his words still carry a lot of weight!
However, not everyone is actively cooperating with the Ferno Group. For example, at this time, many American media outlets such as Global Daily, NBC TV programs, and even the TNT program that specializes in basketball have published special reports on these matters.
Cobalt-chromium alloy has a wide audience, with users regardless of class or race. Especially when athletes get older, many have to use artificial prostheses due to occupational injuries.
Knee joints and hip joints are so common!
The TNT program directly said: "The cobalt-chromium alloy matter is not over yet. After Mr. Bai Ye reported the news about cobalt-chromium alloy, our program team contacted the relevant person in charge of the NBA to follow up on those members who have retired.
According to the survey, among the stars who retired in the early years, many of them have experienced joint replacement surgery, but what is their current situation? In the next week, we will follow up the report for you!"
NBC TV station even directly declared: "This time, the irregularity of the cobalt-chromium alloy market has been directly exposed. As the most widely used cobalt-chromium alloy in the world and said to be the highest safety, it has exposed so many problems.
As the industry leader, Ferno Group should not only use public relations measures, but also pay attention to its own company's products, standardize production, publish the use guidelines for cobalt-chromium alloy products as early as possible, and clearly label their complications and sequelae.
, we still have to remain skeptical as to whether products like cobalt-chromium alloy can continue to be used, and we hope that the FDA can protect the health of a country’s citizens!”
The Ferno Group is currently at the forefront of the storm. Fortunately, the major medical groups have not yet come forward to speak. Are they not speaking?
Of course not, they are very busy!
First, they are verifying whether Bai Ye's conclusion is accurate, or in other words, they are exploring what is going on with cobalt-chromium alloys?
Second, if there is indeed a problem with cobalt-chromium alloy, then how to solve the problem? This is the key!
Each of them could see that Feinuo Group was already shrinking from its performance at this time and chose to use public relations means instead of a strong technical response. This in itself was a failure for a medical technology company.
Concession!
At this time, Feinuo Group seemed to be sitting firmly on the mountain, very calm, as if Bai Ye's paper or the special issue of "Cell" was just a rumor, and it would not be long before it was revealed!
In fact, this is not the case. Feinuo is also very panicked. The characteristics of cobalt-chromium alloy determine its flaws. In Pierce's words, some things even coexist.
God is inherently fair!
Moreover, these complications are clearly written. If nothing else is said, which drug on the market is free of complications?
Isn't this a joke?
In fact, there are, but Ferno Group did not accurately write down the side effects and sequelae of cobalt-chromium alloy prostheses.
This is the core issue, which amounts to deception and concealment, concealment of the right to know!
Many patients are even unaware of certain complications that occur in their bodies!
This is the wrong thing done by Feinuo Group.
In fact, it was not wrong to put this matter aside twenty years ago, because the level of science and technology at that time determined that the side effects of cobalt-chromium alloy had been clearly studied under the medical level at that time.
However, innovations in medical technology have caused many medicines or items to undergo new reviews.
This means that many things may need to be eliminated and many things need to be changed.
Drug usage guidelines need to be changed, drug usage manuals need to be re-reviewed and inspected, medical equipment needs to face new changes, etc...
Every advancement in technology actually requires changes for the entire world.
As a world-class conglomerate, would Feno not understand this?
Of course not. As one of the main businesses of Ferno Group today, Hankison Company's orthopedic medical equipment production and R&D base has been engaged in such research.
Cobalt-chromium alloy came from the research and development of this company. They spent more than ten years, tens of billions of dollars in research funds, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to obtain this cobalt-chromium alloy, which was called the pride of heaven at the time.
He set off the whole world as soon as he appeared and went on the market, and he is destined to be the darling of the times.
That's right, he did it and pulled Feinuo Group from the top 500 to the top 50.
The core of the U.S. FDA's approval process for medical devices is to replace them. If the new medical device has the effect of the medical device that has been on the market before, it can be put on the market.
The FDA in the United States has always been at a vague stage in its review and approval of medical devices. On the contrary, its research on drugs is very strict.
This also caused the Ferno Group to seize this loophole. Although it is also studying the side effects and complications of cobalt-chromium alloy, it has never published the research results.
Moreover, they have never conducted research on whether cobalt-chromium alloy can induce a series of mental illnesses.
If no one comes to expose the problems of cobalt-chromium alloy, according to the requirements of the US FDA, Fenno has not made any mistakes. It can only be said that his work attitude is not positive enough.
But if someone does it, and there is indeed a problem with the cobalt-chromium alloy produced by Ferno and it needs to be rectified, and all patients publicly demand compensation from Ferno, Ferno will not be able to avoid it!
The law is never perfect and, like technology, will change with the times.
Some backward things will all be buried in the dust of history. It cannot be stopped, because the thing that covers you is called the wave of the times.