Reported Jul 3, 2013 · Terminated

VITROS Chemistry Products K+ (Potassium) Slides (Reagent), REF/Catalog Number 815 7596, Product Usage: For in vitro…

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics

Low riskThis product is unlikely to cause harm, but it breaks a safety or labelling rule.

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 Chemistry Products K+ (Potassium) Slides (Reagent), REF/Catalog Number 815 7596
  • Product UsageFor in vitro diagnostic use only. VITROS Chemistry Products K+ Slides quantitatively measure potassium (K+) concentration in serum, plasma, and urine using VITROS 250/350/950/5,1 FS and 4600 Chemistry Systems and the VITROS 5600 Integrated System
Lot codes and dates
  • GEN 4102, Coating 0884, Lot XXXX (exp. 06/01/2014) and GEN 4102, Coating 0885, Lot XXXX (exp. 06/01/2014 and 07/01/2014). The term GEN and Coating refer to specific segments of the reagent lot number.
Amount recalled
Domestic: 236,364; Foreign: 8,339

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

While performing interval testing, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) determined that a surfactant was unintentionally added to VITROS Chemistry Products K+ Slides during the manufacturing process.

This product is unlikely to cause harm, but it breaks a safety or labelling rule.

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Where this came from

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

Read the FDA (openFDA device enforcement) notice

Notice updated Jun 12, 2015 · Data as of Sep 19, 4:53 PM UTC

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