Former-executives at Massachusetts-based Magellan Diagnostics, Inc. were charged this week for allegedly hiding a problem with lead tests that produced low results.
The devices in question tested lead levels through blood draws or fingersticks and accounted for more than half of all blood lead tests conducted in the U.S. from 2013 through 2017, prosecutors said.
Three former executives of medical device company Magellan Diagnostics concealed a malfunction in the company’s lead-testing devices that caused tests to underestimate the level of lead in people s blood, U.S. prosecutors in Boston said in announcing criminal charges on Wednesday.
Three former executives of a company that makes machines that test lead levels in humans deliberately concealed a problem with the devices that produced falsely low results for tens of thousands of children, federal prosecutors said on April 5. The children, as well as pregnant people and others, faced serious health risks because of the