Chapter 453: If you are backward, you should be eliminated
No one could have imagined that at such a moment, Fino would come with such a hand!
Regulate the cobalt-chrome alloy market, this specification is really good.
Moreover, the US FDA has issued a public declaration, saying that the problem of cobalt-chromium alloy is mainly due to the lack of standardization of cobalt-chromium alloy prosthetic products, and the lack of strict review of cobalt-chromium alloy in the market, so as to cause this series of situations.
This explanation is very general, even vague, and explains the hazards of cobalt-chromium alloys as the reason for the mixed quality of this product.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent several teams to set up a cobalt-chromium alloy code committee and began various investigations, and it was Pearce, the head of Hankerson Corporation, a subsidiary of the Fino Group, who cooperated with the investigation.
This makes sense!
In the first week after the committee was formed, the issue of cobalt-chrome alloys had a clear effect.
Within a week, the special quality inspection team under the committee conducted spot checks on more than a dozen small medical device companies with cobalt-chromium alloy artificial prostheses, and after in-depth testing, it was found that there were serious problems with their products, which affected the order of the medical prosthesis market.
This series of reviews of companies related to cobalt-chrome alloys has relieved many people who are concerned about this matter.
Because they still believe in the FDA very much, after all, this is a national regulatory authority, and his words still carry a lot of weight!
However, not everyone is actively cooperating with the Fino Group, for example, at this time, many American media outlets, the Global Daily, NBC TV programs, and even the TNT program, which specializes in basketball, have published special reports on these matters.
Cobalt-chromium alloy has a wide audience, and users are even regardless of class or race, especially when athletes are older, because of occupational injuries, many people have to use artificial prostheses.
Knee joints and hip joints are all too common!
The TNT program said directly: "The matter of cobalt-chromium alloy is not over, after Mr. Bai Ye reported the relevant news of cobalt-chromium alloy, our program team contacted the relevant person in charge of the American professional basketball team, and followed up on the members after their retirement, among the stars who retired in the early years, many of them have experienced joint replacement, but what is their current situation?
NBC TV even directly declared: " As the most widely used in the world today, the highest safety of cobalt-chromium alloy alloy has exposed so many problems, as the industry leader Fino Group should not only do public relations means, but also need to pay attention to their own company's products, standardize production, publish the guidelines for the use of cobalt-chrome alloy products as soon as possible, and clearly mark the sequelae of its complications, in the end cobalt-chrome alloy such products can continue to be used, we still have to remain skeptical, I hope that the FDA can escort the health of a country's citizens!”
Now the Feinuo Group is on the cusp, but fortunately, the major medical groups have not yet stood up to speak, don't they speak?
Of course not, they're busy!
First, they are verifying whether Bai Ye's conclusion is accurate, or what is the situation of cobalt-chromium alloy?
Second, if there is indeed a problem with cobalt-chromium alloys, then how to solve the problem? This is the key!
Each of them could see that Fino Group was already backing down at this time, choosing to use public relations instead of a strong technical response, which in itself was a failed concession for a medical technology company!
At this time, the Feinuo Group seemed to be sitting firmly on Mount Tai, very calm, as if Bai Ye's paper or the special issue of "Cell" was just a rumor, or it would not be long before it would be self-defeating!
Actually, no, Fino was also panicked, the characteristics of the cobalt-chrome alloy determined his defects, and in Pierce's words, even some things coexisted.
God is inherently fair!
Moreover, these complications are clearly written, not to mention anything else, which kind of drug on the market is now free of complications?
Isn't that a joke?
In fact, there are, but Fino Group did not accurately write out the side effects and sequelae of cobalt-chrome alloy prostheses.
This is the core problem, which is equivalent to deception and concealment, the concealment of the right to know!
Even many patients do not know about some complications in their bodies!
That's one of the wrong things that the Fino Group has done.
In fact, there was nothing wrong with this matter being put aside 20 years ago, because the level of science and technology at that time determined that the side effects of cobalt-chromium alloys had been clearly studied at the medical level at that time.
However, the innovation of medical technology has caused many medicines or goods to be subject to new audits.
This means that a lot of things may need to be phased out, and a lot of things need to be changed.
Guidelines for the use of drugs need to be changed, manuals for drugs need to be reviewed and reviewed, medical devices need to face new changes, and so on......
Every advancement in technology is actually a change for the whole world.
As a world-class group, Fino will not understand this thing?
Of course not, as one of the main businesses of the Fino Group today, Hankerson Company's orthopedic medical device production and research and development base, they have been engaged in such research.
Cobalt-chromium alloy comes from the research and development of this company, and it took them more than ten years, tens of billions of dollars in research funds, and how much manpower and material resources were paid to get this cobalt-chromium alloy that was called the pride of heaven at that time.
He detonated the whole world as soon as he appeared and went public, and he was destined to be the darling of the times.
That's right, he did it, and pulled the Fino Group from the position of the world's top 500 to the top 50.
The core of the U.S. FDA's approval process for medical devices is to replace them with new medical devices that can be marketed if they have the efficacy of a medical device that has already been marketed.
The FDA in the United States has always been in a vague stage of approval of medical devices, on the contrary, the research of drugs is very strict.
This also caused the Fino Group to seize this loophole, and although the side effects and complications of cobalt-chromium alloys are also being studied, the research results have not been published.
Moreover, cobalt-chromium alloys can induce a series of psychiatric disorders that they have never done research.
If no one has come to expose the problems of cobalt-chromium alloys, according to the requirements of the US FDA, Fino has not made a mistake, and can only say that his work attitude is not positive enough.
However, if someone does, there is indeed a problem with the cobalt-chromium alloy produced by Fino and needs to be rectified, and all patients publicly ask for compensation from Fino, but Fino can't avoid it!
Laws are never perfect, and like technology, they change with the times.
Some backward things will all be buried by the dust of history, and they can't be stopped, because this thing that covers you is called the tide of the times.