Philips Faces Deepened French Probe Over Sleep Apnea Device Safety
Digital patient monitoring equipment beside a dummy patient in an intensive care unit at the Philips Healthcare showroom in Best, Netherlands.
Photographer: Jasper Juinen/BloombergFrench prosecutors stepped up an investigation into Royal Philips NV for potentially causing danger to human health with breathing devices, tasking a magistrate with deeper probing powers to lead the case.
Paris prosecutors said on Monday that the decision to pass on the case to an investigative magistrate was made in June. The investigation will look into possible fraud concerning goods that result in danger to human or animal health.