Hospira touts non-DEHP offerings
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Lake Forest, Ill. firm announces plans to add 40 new infusion therapy medication delivery sets to its offerings of non-DEHP medical devices by early 2005. Hospira now markets roughly 80 products that do not use the polyvinyl chloride plasticizer, which, in 2003, was added to the California Environmental Protection Agency's Prop. 65 list of chemicals known to cause reproductive toxicity (1"The Gray Sheet" Oct. 27, 2003, In Brief). In 2002, FDA issued a 2public health notification recommending use of DEHP alternatives, followed by a 3draft guidance on PVC devices...