No Prison Time For Former Olympus Exec In Scope Case

A former Olympus exec who took personal responsibility for the company’s failure to submit duodenoscope-related adverse event reports has been sentenced to one year’s probation and a $5,000 fine. 

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A former Olympus Corp. executive won’t serve any prison time for his role in failing to report adverse events tied to contaminated duodenoscopes.

Hisao Yabe was Olympus’s top US regulatory executive in 2012 and 2013, when the company’s duodenoscopes were tied to three separate infectious disease outbreaks in French and Dutch hospitals that...

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