Who is Stryker?
The New Jersey manufacturer Howmedica Osteonics Corporation sells its hip implant system under the Stryker Trident Ceramic Acetabular System. Although there are other companies that market ceramic-on-ceramic hit implant products, Howmedica / Stryker seem to have the greatest market share. According to Douglass Kreis, a Florida attorney who has been following the Stryker controversy very closely, Stryker brought ceramic-on-ceramic to the mainstream market. However, even accounting for the greater market share enjoyed by Stryker, we believe the audible sounds have much greater prevalence and purported incidence with Strykers product vis–vis the other companies who jumped onto the ceramic bandwagon. The FDAs involvement The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspected Strykers New Jersey plant in June and July of 2007. In various letters to the company, the FDA outlined some major concerns with Strykers manufacturing processes. Most of this wasnt made public until the FDA wrote another l
