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Olympus Endoscopes — recall 74425

Health Canada — Medical Devices · Canada · 2023-10-16 · Type II

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Agency
Health Canada — Medical Devices
Recall identifier
74425
Date of alert
2023-10-16
Country / jurisdiction
Canada
Risk level
Type II
Risk type
recall
Product category
Anaesthesiology - Ear, nose and throat - Gastroenterology and urology - General and plastic surgery - Obstetrics and gyn
Product type
Medical devices
Reported risk: Following repair activities, Olympus uses a water flush of endoscope channels as part of our final endoscope channel inspection, and we subsequently dry the endoscope channels with compressed filtered air. Olympus discovered that our channel air drying process was not validated, and that a small percentage of scopes returned to customers after repair had a wet channel. Recall start date: September 25, 2023
Primary source: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/olympus-endoscopes

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