Reported Dec 26, 2018 · Terminated

VITEK 2 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) using one or more of these susceptibility products: Catalog #…

bioMerieux, Inc.

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: bioMerieux, Inc. · 100 Rodolphe St · Durham, NC · 27712-9402

Is this the product you have?

  • VITEK 2 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) using one or
  • more of these susceptibility productsCatalog # 410028, VITEK 2 AST-ST01 Catalog # 420915, VITEK 2 AST-ST02 Catalog # 421040, VITEK 2 AST-ST03 The VITEK 2 Streptococcus Susceptibility Card is intended for use with the VITEK 2 Systems in clinical laboratories as an in vitro test to determine the susceptibility of S. pneumoniae, beta-hemolytic Streptococcus, and Viridans Streptococcus to antimicrobial agents when used as instructed
Lot codes and dates
    • Catalog # 410028
    • VITEK 2 AST-ST01 Catalog # 420915
    • VITEK 2 AST-ST02 Catalog # 421040
    • VITEK 2 AST-ST03
Amount recalled
184,374

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

Why it was recalled

False resistant results for Streptococcus anginosus and Streptococcus constellatus strains were reported.

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 Nov 4, 2019 · Data as of Sep 19, 4:51 PM UTC

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