Reported May 14, 2014 · Terminated

Alere INRatio2 PT/INR Professional Test Strips, Model Number: 99008G2. The Alere INRatio2 PT/INR Monitoring System…

Alere San Diego, Inc.

High riskUsing this product could cause serious injury, illness or death — stop using it now.

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: Alere San Diego, Inc. · 9975 Summers Ridge Rd · San Diego, CA · 92121-2997

Is this the product you have?

  • Alere INRatio2 PT/INR Professional Test Strips
  • Model Number99008G2. The Alere INRatio2 PT/INR Monitoring System (Professional Use), consisting of the Monitor and test strip, is used for quantitative determination of international normalized ratio (INR) in fresh, capillary whole blood to monitor the effect of warfarin therapy on clotting time by health care professionals. (in vitro diagnostic use)
Lot codes and dates
  • Lot/Unit CodesApplicable to all Alere INRatio2 PT/INR Professional Test Strips lots packaged from 8/22/13 through 3/28/14
  • including the following
    • 324810
    • 324811
    • 324812
    • 327543
    • 327544
    • 327549
    • 328109
    • 328705
    • 328707
    • 330238
    • 330852
    • 331340
    • 331916
    • 331922
    • 332841
    • 332842
    • 332843
    • 332959
    • 333362
    • 333654
    • 333655
    • 333864
    • 333865
    • 334572
    • 334575
    • 335552
    • 335553
    • 335796
    • 335797
    • 336426
    • 336668
    • 337350
    • 338965
    • 338966
    • 339257
    • 339707
    • 327856V Expiration date
  • or Expected shelf liferange from 4/30/14 to 1/31/15
Amount recalled
Estimated 99,795 Total units

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

Why it was recalled

Stop using this product now

Test Strips may report an inaccurately low INR result. Several patients had a therapeutic or near-therapeutic INR with the Alere INRatio2 PT/INR Professional Test Strip but a significantly higher INR (outside of therapeutic range) when performed by a central laboratory.

Using this product could cause serious injury, illness or death — stop using it now.

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Where this came from

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

Read the FDA (openFDA device enforcement) notice

Notice updated Jul 19, 2017 · Data as of Sep 19, 5:27 PM UTC

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