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Recall for various Zimmer GMBH medical devices — recall 48367

Health Canada — Medical Devices · Canada · 2012-09-17 · Type III

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Agency: Health Canada — Medical Devices
Recall identifier: 48367
Date of alert: 2012-09-17
Country / jurisdiction: Canada
Risk level: Type III
Risk type: recall
Product category: Medical devices
Product type: Medical devices
Notice status: Archived by the issuing authority — kept for reference

Reported risk: Zimmer is initiating this product safety corrective action to inform customers with consignment product to check patient labels against product labels during the surgery for some products manufactured by the Zimmer GMBH production site in Winterthur (Switzerland) before March 2010. In rare cases, product information on the patient label with respect to Reference lumber and lot number might not coincide with the corresponding information on the product label (which is correct).

Primary source: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/recall-various-zimmer-gmbh-med

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Recall for various Zimmer GMBH medical devices — recall 48367

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