Posts tagged "product recalls"

Any product recall in this industry is much more complex than any other industry and it is simply because it is very hard to trace the origin of the product and the diversity one finds in Agri products. Any issues with Agri products too are not easy to detect as they do not follow the standard metrological and quality aspects common in other products. Despite that, the number of Agri product recalls is rising every year, reflecting on the conscious effort by several countries. Below is a list of the major Agri product recalls in the past few decades

This industry is quite new and devices are only common in the last 2-3 decades. So, recalls generally will be within this period. But such recalls must be entirely rare given the amount of testing that goes into them and the Beta devices and updates released, Right? No! The number of devices and the competition and the ever-shrinking life cycle gives the manufacturers with so little time for all the testing. After all, even a carbon copies need so much testing if they are communication devices! The recalls over the years have been for multiple reasons but majority seem to be to fix faulty components and software. Listed below are some of the recalls that shook the industry. 

Medical Device Recalls may not rake up high numbers as other consumer products do, but the pain people go through before and during the recall process makes them one of the most important product recalls. But tracking has been the major issue over the years as many devices, most of them implants, being untraceable once inside the human body. People literally live entire lives with these defective devices in them as their bodies creak and moan.

A car has thousands of parts in it. Earlier, it all used to be mechanical with a few electrical parts but the past two decades have seen automobiles with more electronics inside them than a computer has! This has raised the complexity so much that any number of trials and tests is not enough to identify the possible defects. Before 2000, most of the auto manufacturers preferred not to recall vehicles owing to high costs involved unless the issue was large and they were forced.

Pharma Industry involves one of the highest amounts of research and testing before going into production. Despite that, the truckload of errors and side-effects involved in medications and drugs certainly does not miss the attention. Only very few of these actually get noticed and reported, usually when the results are fatal or serious, but even that counts for a large number. Let us have a look at some of the largest drug and other pharma recalls in history.