GE Plant Reopens

Almost two years after GE Healthcare Surgery closed a Salt Lake City plant because of quality issues, the firm has reopened the plant, the New York Times reports. FDA gave the OK yesterday after GE demonstrated that it had made "refinements" to its quality management system. GE voluntarily closed the plant in August 2006 and entered into a consent decree with FDA in January 2007, barring it from shipping X-ray equipment from that plant until the problems were solved.