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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn says she wants to fix the quality “problems” involving the free, government-issued NYC Condoms — but city health officials say New Yorkers think they’re fine.
The Department of Health has received zero complaints regarding the “NYC”- brand condoms so far this year, a spokeswoman said.
And since 2007, DOH has received only 80 official complaints regarding condom quality or failure, the rep said. That’s out of 200 million condoms distributed.
Only 36 of those 80 complaints warranted investigation, officials said.
And “of these 36 . . . none of the products deviated from FDA specifications found in product testing — meaning none were found to be defective,” said DOH spokeswoman Diane Hepps.
Still, mayoral candidate Quinn yesterday insisted that complaints from sex educators, health-care workers and others have led her to crusade.
Quinn said Thursday that gay-rights and HIV-related organizations have complained that NYC Condoms are too small and rip easily.
The city-brand condoms are standard-sized, rebranded LifeStyles prophylactics. A spokesman for the manufacturer, Ansell Healthcare of Red Bank, NJ, did not immediately comment except to say that the company was aware of the speaker’s complaints.