On June 30, 2011 [[Danaher_Corporation|Danaher]] finalized the acquisition of Beckman Coulter. <ref>http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=82105&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1581181&highlight=</ref>
==Controversies==
* October 2011 [[shac.net|Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]] revealed Beckman Coulter as a supplier of Huntingdon Life Sciences, a contract animal testing facility that has been targeted by activists world wide. <ref>http://shac.net/2011supplierleak/</ref>
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* On February 9th 2012, activists in Southern California launch a campaign against Beckman Coutler to encourage them to terminate their business relationship with Huntingdon Life Sciences a lab based out of the UK that does tests on 500 animals a day. <ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMTQschdwOU</ref>
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* In April 2011, Beckman Coulter was ordered a Class 1 recall by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for several of their medical devices. The FDA classified the recall as the “most serious type of recall [Class 1]” which “involve situations in which there is a reasonable probability that use of these products will cause serious adverse health consequences or death”. Beckman Coulter distributed these medical devices from March 1997 to April 201 <ref>http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/RecallsCorrectionsRemovals/ListofRecalls/ucm256381.htm</ref>
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* In August 2011, Beckman Coulter’s General Manager in Turkey was exposed for breaking several trade laws in addition to general corruption. Beckman Coulter was banned from doing business for an entire year in Turkey. <ref>http://www.biofind.com/rumor-mill/beckman-coulter-turkey-banned-business-one-year-starting-august-20-2011</ref>
