In 2020, Puritan Medical Products Co. was tapped by the federal government as the primary manufacturer of swabs to be used in COVID-19 test kits. Riding a wave of demand, with millions in federal ...

Puritan produces over 1 billion swabs per year. The company is working on final approval and validation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on a new product it hopes to launch in the second ...

The consumer-goods giant said it was launching a review of underperforming brands within its vitamins, minerals and supplements unit.

Within months, Puritan ramped up production to make up to 100 million swabs per month. “When you think about the billions of swabs that were produced by this company that went into the testing kits.