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Bogus screws ended up in spines of surgery patients
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:20:35
Publish Date: 2015-03-16 23:05:12
Description:

When it comes to medical hardware, who’s got your back?

The Food and Drug Administration is supposed to ensure that equipment going inside people’s bodies is manufactured by companies approved by the agency, but there’s a fissure in the system.

Reveal’s Will Evans and Christina Jewett follow up on a tip and discover a frightening lapse in the authenticity of surgical screws – the kind designed to be driven into your spine.
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