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Wisconsin Pharmacal Co., which makes the device and plans to market it under the brand name Reality, has done a number of tests, both on the condom and people who use it. The company said tests over six months found a failure rate of 12.2 percent among women in the United States, with failure defined as pregnancy. The FDA pointed out that the failure rate among women studied in Latin America was almost twice that and among certain age groups, over 30 percent. The agency said the company may have underes timated the failure rate by as much as 10 percent. The female condom is an adaptation of the one for men. It is a seven-inch tube with flexible rings at both ends. The inner ring fits behind the woman's pubic bone, and the outer ring remains outside her body. The condom has been pumped full of.helium, filled with water, shot with lasers and tried in rabbits in the laboratory to see if it irritated the animals. Those tests were fine, the FDA said. The results in people were mixed. 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