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Columbia Agar with 5% Sheep Blood and Trypticase Soy Agar with 5%… — recall 52053

Health Canada — Medical Devices · Canada · 2014-08-22 · Type II

As described by Health Canada — Medical Devices: Columbia Agar with 5% Sheep Blood and Trypticase Soy Agar with 5% Sheep Blood (TSA II) / MacConkey II Agar (2014-07-10)

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Agency
Health Canada — Medical Devices
Recall identifier
52053
Date of alert
2014-08-22
Country / jurisdiction
Canada
Risk level
Type II
Risk type
recall
Product category
Medical devices
Product type
Medical devices
Notice status
Archived by the issuing authority — kept for reference
Reported risk: BD has recently confirmed a low level of surface and subsurface contamination of Listeria monocytogenes on the prepared plated media. May be hazardous to health. The contamination could be erroneously reported as an actual patient result causing misdiagnosis and/or mistreatment of a non-serious illness.
Primary source: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/columbia-agar-5-sheep-blood-an

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