Investigators' reports: executives convicted in device scheme.(Ross A. Caputo and Robert M. Riley of AbTox Inc.)

FDA Consumer | July 1, 2006 | Copyright

Two executives of a Mundelein, Ill., company were convicted on April 13, 2006, of fraudulently selling uncleared surgical sterilizing devices that led to eye damage and to the loss of sight in one eye for 18 patients.

Ross A. Caputo was the president and CEO of AbTox, and Robert M. Riley, the vice president of regulatory affairs of AbTox, when the company received permission to market a small gas plasma sterilizer only for use in sterilizing flat stainless-steel surgical instruments without tubes or hinges. The defendants instead marketed a larger, unauthorized version of the ...

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