Canadian data is current through March 2018. All of the data comes from Health Canada, except for the categories Manufacturer Parent Company and Product Classification.
The Parent Company and the Product Classification were added by ICIJ.
The parent company information is based on 2017 public records. The device classification information comes from FDA’s Product Classification by Review Panel, based on matches of recall data from the U.S. and Canada.
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The half pins were produced without the tin (titanium nitride) coating. there is an obvious difference in the colour of the tin coated pins and the non-coated pins as gold versus steel respectively. the pins are also sold as non-sterile where the user would have to remove the pins from the packaging and place them into hospital sterilization trays.