From: Sar Saloth (sarsaloth_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 2002-03-13 17:55:40
There was a computer controlled irradiator (I think for tumors or
something) and it was possible via a glitch in the setup screen when
exposures were set to somehow make it accidentally increase the exposure by
100 times or something like that. It didn't happen too often, but in the
first case, when someone (a doctor or a lawyer) contacted the company, they
were had no knowledge of it ever happening before.
It happened a few more times and other people were told the same thing. By
accident, a couple of lawyers were speaking and realized that EACH of them
were told by the president or someone else senior in the company that they
had no knowledge of it happening to someone else. I think the company was
a subsidiary of AECL (atomic energy Canada limited).
Because of their complete lack of any responsibility to the public, and
outright lies that endangered the public, the FDA created standards for
software. It is not completely true that this is the direct cause, but it
was a significant factor. I don't know if the MDR requirements also sprang
from this.
At 05:33 PM 2002-03-13 +0000, you wrote:
>--- In buildcheapeeg_at_yahoogroups.com, Sar Saloth <sarsaloth_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > At 10:01 AM 2002-03-13 +0000, you wrote:
> > >Sar Saloth wrote:
>[...]
> > If it
> > wasn't for those other Canadian bastards that radiated a few people to
> > death by software errors and then lied about it so that more people got
> > burnt, we might not have these problems.
>
>What was this case?
>----------
>bye, Scott
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