Dec 15 2009
Medline Industries, Inc., based in Mundelein, Illinois, and 3M Company,
based in St. Paul, Minnesota, announced today that they have amicably
reached an agreement resolving all claims between them based on
allegations that each company made false claims in advertising promoting
their respective surgical hand cleaners, Medline’s Sterillium® Rub and
3M’s Avagard™ Surgical Hand Antiseptic. Both products are used by
doctors, nurses and other health care providers in preventing infection.
The terms of the parties’ agreement are confidential. The parties’
claims against one another, currently pending in the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, will be dismissed.
SOURCE Medline Industries, Inc.