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Information for healthcare professionals: risk of transmission of blood-borne pathogens from shared use of insulin pens.

March 4, 2015

FDA Alert. Silver Spring, MD; US Food and Drug Administration: March 19, 2009.

This announcement alerts clinicians and patients that insulin pens and insulin cartridges are never to be used on more than one patient.

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