CPAP Machine Recall Caused by Flawed Design, Not Cleaning Products, Suit Claims
- SoClean says consumers being misled about ozone sanitizers
- Philips blames cleaners for breaking down foam in devices
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Koninklijke Philips NV, a maker of breathing machines used for treating sleep apnea, was accused in a lawsuit of improperly blaming its recall of about 3.5 million devices on unapproved cleaning products rather than the company’s own design flaws.
SoClean Inc., which sells cleaning products for the personal ventilators known as CPAP machines, accused Philips of “deflecting attention away from inexcusable design flaws, misleading the public, creating confusion, and causing hundreds of millions of dollars of damage in the process,” according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Boston.