An animal testing laboratory at Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain technology company was found to have “objectionable conditions or practices” by the Food and Drug Administration, which cited the company and urged it to address the problems.
FDA inspectors identified the issues at Neuralink’s animal testing facilities in California in June 2023, several weeks after the agency had given the company the green light for a small study of its brain implant in humans, according to the letter to Congress dated November 29.
A report by Reuters in February indicated that FDA inspectors had found problems with quality controls and record keeping at Neuralink’s lab in California during a June 2023 inspection, but had yet to determine what degree of action was warranted.
The FDA declined to say whether these were the same objectionable conditions cited in the letter.
