Tainted CPAP machines and ventilators went to children, the elderly and at least 700,000 veterans despite internal warnings. Company insiders said the devices posed an “unacceptable” risk.
It sounds like it’s not just a case of “could cause cancer” it sounds like it straight-up does cause cancer. They’re not just talking about carcinogenic compounds, they’re talking about genotoxic carcinogenic compounds. My understanding is that normal carcinogens carry a risk of developing cancer, but it’s not guaranteed. Genotoxic carcinogens, however, are almost guaranteed to cause cancer because they actually change how cells work.
I went and googled the difference for us, because I have no idea:
The term “genotoxic carcinogen” indicates a chemical capable of producing cancer by directly altering the genetic material of target cells, while “non-genotoxic carcinogen” represents a chemical capable of producing cancer by some secondary mechanism not related to direct gene damage. - Hayashi Y. (1992). Overview of genotoxic carcinogens and non-genotoxic carcinogens. Experimental and toxicologic pathology : official journal of the Gesellschaft fur Toxikologische Pathologie, 44(8), 465–471. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0940-2993(11)80159-4
