Reported Oct 22, 2014 · Terminated

VITROS 4600 Chemistry System (VITROS 5,1 FS System family member), System Product Code 6802445. The VITROS 4600…

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics

Moderate riskThis product could cause temporary or reversible health problems — stop using it.

What you should do

Stop using the affected lot and contact the recalling firm for the return or refund process. Check the FDA enforcement report for lot-level detail.

Firm contact: Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics · 100 Indigo Creek Dr · Rochester, NY · 14626-5101

Is this the product you have?

  • VITROS 4600 Chemistry System (VITROS 5,1 FS System family member), System Product Code 6802445. The VITROS 4600 Chemistry System is intended for use in the in vitro quantitative measurement of a variety of analytes of clinical interest, using both VITROS Chemistry Products Slides (colorimetric endpoint, rate, ion-selective electrode, and immunorate methods) and VITROS Chemistry Products MicroTip liquid reagents (spectrophotometric and spectrophotometric immunoassay methods.
Lot codes and dates
  • Software Version 3.0 and below; Serial Numbers J46000012 - J46000456 (serial numbers are sequential; J Numbers are analogous to serial numbers)
Amount recalled
USA: 97; Foreign: 232

This recall covers 2 products

The agency filed one notice per product. You are reading one of them; the other one is below.

Where it was sold

  • Nationwide
  • PR

Why it was recalled

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) identified an anomaly with Software Version 3.0 and below on the VITROS 4600 Chemistry Systems and VITROS Integrated Systems. Internal testing confirmed that when using calibrator barcode labels supplied with VITROS Chemistry Products Calibrator Kits 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 9, an unexpected assay calibration may occur if assay targets are unassigned (i.e., hidden).

This product could cause temporary or reversible health problems — stop using it.

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Where this came from

Source: U.S. Food & Drug Administration (openFDA)

Read the FDA (openFDA device enforcement) notice

Notice updated May 21, 2018 · Data as of Sep 19, 5:25 PM UTC

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