U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspectors found problems with record keeping and quality controls for animal experiments at Elon Musk’s Neuralink, less than a month after the startup said it was cleared to test its brain implants in humans, according to an agency report reviewed by Reuters.

The inspectors identified quality control lapses at the company’s California animal research facility. A similar inspection at Neuralink’s Texas facility did not find problems, according to agency records.

Those visits took place last year from June 12-22, and represent the FDA’s sole inspections of Neuralink facilities on record. The inspector reports were shared with Reuters by Redica Systems, a data analytics company that obtains FDA compliance reports through open records requests.

“These issues show a lack of attention to detail,” said Jerry L. Chapman, a senior quality expert with Redica Systems.

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
    13·
    4 months ago

    I mean, all of the initial monkeys had to be euthanized because of how fucked up they were. Constantly digging at the implant, constantly screaming in pain, etc. Going to say there may have been some horrific problems there.

    • yuriy@lemmy.world
      9·
      4 months ago

      I believe they were biting their own fingers off as well. They stopped publishing research when they took the study out of the college and finished it independently. Probably unrelated to all the mutilated monkeys though.