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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Thermo Fisher halts sale of genetic sequencers to Xinjiang area

Thermo Fisher said it will stop selling and servicing genetic sequencers in China’s Xinjiang region, following growing criticism that its products were used for state surveillance of citizens in the region that enabled the abuse of human rights, the Wall Street Journal’s Natasha Khan reports. The company said that the move to no longer support customers of its human identification technology in the area was “consistent with Thermo Fisher’s values, ethics code and policies” and followed “fact-specific assessments,” Khan reports.

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