Reported Apr 10, 2013 · Terminated

Siemens Dimension(R) Phosphorus (PHOS) Flex(R) reagent cartridge (DF61) The Phosphorus (PHOS) method used on the…

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, 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: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc. · 500 Gbc Dr Ms 514 · Newark, DE · 19702-2466

Is this the product you have?

  • Siemens Dimension(R) Phosphorus (PHOS) Flex(R) reagent cartridge (DF61) The Phosphorus (PHOS) method used on the Dimension(R) clinical chemistry system is an in vitro diagnostic test intended for the quantitative measurement of phosphorus in human serum, plasma, and urine.
Lot codes and dates

16 of 16 products

Products covered by this recall
#Product as published
1Lot numbers DC3078, exp 3/19/13
2DA3092, exp 4/2/13
3FB3109, exp 4/19/13
4BC3127, exp 5/7/13
5BB3152, exp 6/1/13
6EC3166, exp 6/15/13
7BB3190, exp 7/9/13
8DA3212, exp 7/31/13
9EA3233, exp 8/21/13
10FB3260, exp 9/17/13
11DA3319, exp 11/15/13
12DA3320, exp 11/16/13
13GC3337, exp 12/3/13
14FB3346, exp 12/12/13
15CB4014, exp 1/14/14
16and FB4029, exp 1/29/14.
Amount recalled
60,674

This recall covers 4 products

The agency filed one notice per product. You are reading one of them; the other 3 are below.

Where it was sold

Why it was recalled

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has initiated a voluntary field action for Dimension(R) PHOS Flex(R) Reagent due to reagent interaction causing falsely depressed Creatinine results when EZCR is processed from open wells that are in close proximity to open wells of PHOS reagent.

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 Jan 29, 2015 · Data as of Sep 19, 5:31 PM UTC

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