Reported Jun 15, 2016 · Terminated

Cholesterol, Catalog No. OSR6x16 Product Usage:Cholesterol OSR6x16 is intended as a System reagent for the quantitative…

Beckman Coulter 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: Beckman Coulter Inc. · 250 S Kraemer Blvd · Brea, CA · 92821-6232

Is this the product you have?

  • Cholesterol, Catalog No
  • OSR6x16 Product UsageCholesterol OSR6x16 is intended as a System reagent for the quantitative determination of Cholesterol concentrations in human serum on Beckman Coulter AU analyzers
Lot codes and dates
  • All lots
Amount recalled
43,877 units total (10,496 units in US)

This recall covers 5 products

The agency filed one notice per product. You are reading one of them; the other 4 are below.

Where it was sold

  • Nationwide
  • PR

Why it was recalled

Beckman Coulter has identified that Dipyrone (Metamizole) may cause erroneous, false low results in the following assays: Cholesterol OSR6X16, Triglyceride OSR6X118, Uric Acid OSR6X98, Lactate OSR6X93, and Lipase OSR6X30.

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 Jun 30, 2016 · Data as of Sep 19, 6:00 PM UTC

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