Kimberly-Clark Corporation has agreed to pay $40.4 million in a settlement for a criminal charge involving the sale of adulterated MicroCool surgical gowns. The Justice Department revealed that the company confessed to deceptive testing and mislabeling the gowns as meeting the top AAMI Level 4 protection standards. A criminal case in the Northern District of Texas alleges that Kimberly-Clark knowingly introduced substandard medical devices into interstate commerce with the aim to deceive. An investigation revealed an employee tampered with...