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Mone company fined for faulty PPE contracts

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vegansrock Wed 01-Oct-25 12:54:45

Good
Gove and Johnson should be fined too www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy08xg226l1t

LemonJam Fri 03-Oct-25 16:53:17

Oreo

The Company did supply the PPE but it was deemed not to be surgically sterile, does that necessarily mean it was done with intent to defraud?

Who knows for sure? But unlikely to have wanted shipment to be rejected ? Medpro had no prior experience in supplying surgical gowns to UK government and evidently did not do the necessary due diligence work to be sure of UK legal standards and just "assumed" CE Chinese standard would be sufficient for UK standards. Instead of taking accountability at the time however and engaging with their "middle man supplier" to sort out the required validation process to satisfy UK legal standard they did nothing. When Medpro were then serve with notice shipment was not accepted then took issue with UK government and Mone and her husband hid behind lies. That was their biggest mistake and downfall. Mone had business savvy from her ultimo bra days- she should have known better and ensured contract specification requirements, with her husband Medpro owner, were spelt out clearly to her middle man company who then secured the gowns from China. Again she should have known better and a bit late to claim spilt milk now....

Casdon Fri 03-Oct-25 17:02:01

Of course her company was not the only one to provide stocks that failed to meet UK safety standards, unfortunately it was common at the beginning of the pandemic. The use of out of date stock from the nation’s major incident stores was preferable (after carrying out safety checks on it). So many lessons to learn.

Oreo Fri 03-Oct-25 17:17:33

Thanks Casdon and LemonJam for info.