EpiPens weren’t working. It took 3 years and the FDA stepping in before serious change — with potentially deadly outcomes

EpiPens weren't working.

Complaints about the devices were piling up with the product's manufacturer, a unit of the drug giant Pfizer called Meridian Medical Technologies, in 2013 and 2014. Patients said their EpiPens were hard to activate or activated before they could use them, arrived leaking, or came with bent needles or discolored solution.