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VITROS 4600 Chemistry System Software For use in the in-vitro… — recall Z-2067-2012

U.S. FDA — Device Enforcement · United States · 2012-05-21 · Class II

As described by U.S. FDA — Device Enforcement: VITROS 4600 Chemistry System Software For use in the in-vitro quantitative, semi quantitative, and qualitative measurement of variety of analytes of clinical interest.

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Agency
U.S. FDA — Device Enforcement
Recall identifier
Z-2067-2012
Date of alert
2012-05-21
Country / jurisdiction
United States
Risk level
Class II
Risk type
recall
Brand
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
Product category
device
Product type
Devices
Recall status
Terminated — the recall action is complete and the FDA has closed it
Initiated by
Voluntary: Firm initiated
Distribution
Worldwide Distribution - USA (nationwide) and the countries of Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Argentina, Paraquay, Ecuador, Colombia, India, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Singapore, Venezuela, UK, Northern Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
Reported risk: software automatically switches the lot when a vancomycin (VANC) or valproic acid (VALP) reagent is depleted or the operator manually changes the lot in use causing lack of verification of proper quality assessment.
Primary source: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfRes/res.cfm?start_search=1&

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