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Ed Markey: You could not reject it even though you knew it was defective. Is that correct?

On the recordApril 17, 2012
You could not reject it even though you knew it was defective. Is that correct?
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey emphasizes the issue of FDA's inability to reject known defective devices.

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