Tag: ozone cleaning
Philips wants SoClean to pay part of settlement
May 16, 2024HME News Staff
PITTSBURGH – Philips has sued SoClean in a bid to get the company, whose ozone cleaners it says “attacks” the foam in its CPAP devices, to pay part of its recently announced $1.1 billion settlement.
Philips announced the settlement in April to resolve the personal injury litigation and the medical monitoring class action related to a recall of certain sleep and respiratory devices in the U.S.
“(SoClean’s) negligent and intentionally misleading...
Philips countersues SoClean
January 5, 2024HME News Staff
PITTSBURGH – Philips on Jan. 5 filed a counter lawsuit against SoClean and its private equity owner, DWHP, arguing they "recklessly and unlawfully” marketed their ozone cleaning devices as compatible with its CPAP and BiPAP devices.
“Contrary to SoClean’s repeated representation of compatibility, SoClean knew that its ozone cleaners had the potential to eat away at Philips Respironics’ PAPs from the inside,” the company states in the lawsuit filed...
In brief: Philips testing, F&P changes, Medline donation
July 26, 2023HME News Staff
AMSTERDAM – Testing on the impact of ozone cleaning on the Philips System One and DreamStation Go sleep therapy devices shows volatile organic compounds and particulate matter emissions related to foam degradation are within the applicable safety limits and are unlikely to result in appreciable harm to health in patients, the company announced July 24.
Additional visual assessments on used/returned first-generation DreamStation devices also confirmed the previously established low...
Philips provides additional testing results on devices treated with ozone cleaning
July 25, 2023HME News Staff
AMSTERDAM – Testing on the impact of ozone cleaning on the Philips System One and DreamStation Go sleep therapy devices shows volatile organic compounds and particulate matter emissions related to foam degradation are within the applicable safety limits and are unlikely to result in appreciable harm to health in patients, the company announced July 24.
Additional visual assessments on used/returned first-generation DreamStation devices also confirmed the previously established low...