Smith & Nephew plc (LSE: SN, NYSE: SNN) announced today that its Orthopaedics business received late yesterday a subpoena from the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, requesting documents for the period beginning January 2001 through to the present relating to possible violations of US antitrust laws, in respect of the manufacture and sale of orthopaedic implant devices. Similar enquiries have been directed to a number of Smith & Nephew's US competitors. Smith & Nephew will cooperate fully with this request.
