Agency Officials, Experts Offer Advice On Product Recalls

摘要

Patient safety should be the paramount objective for medical device firms when considering whether and how to conduct a product recall, experts say. "If those in the regulatory and clinical area... keep that in mind, they probably will be able to do the right thing for the company with respect to both compliance and product liability, and at the same time do right by the patients, who are their ultimate customers," said Jeffrey Shapiro, an attorney with the Washington, D.C., law firm Hyman, Phelps & McNamara.