Reported Aug 13, 2014 · Terminated

VITROS 3600 Immunodiagnostic System --- For use in the in vitro quantitative, semi-quantitative and qualitative…

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics

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: Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics · 100 Indigo Creek Dr · Rochester, NY · 14626-5101

Is this the product you have?

  • VITROS 3600 Immunodiagnostic System --- For use in the in vitro quantitative, semi-quantitative and qualitative measurement of a variety of analytes of clinical interest, using VITROS Immunodiagnostic Products Reagents. The VITROS Software is a part of the VITROS 3600, 4600, & 5600 Systems. The VITROS 3600, 4600, & 5600 Systems share the same software base. VITROS Sample Programming consists of Sample Identification (SID), test requests, and patient demographics. Patient demographics include patient name, address, date of birth, gender, physician, and patient identification (PID).
Lot codes and dates
  • Serial Numbers J36000101 - J36000806 (J Numbers are analogous to Serial Numbers and for VITROS 3600 systems the J Numbers start with 3600XXXX)
Amount recalled
Domestic: 142, Foreign: 536

This recall covers 3 products

The agency filed one notice per product. You are reading one of them; the other 2 are below.

Where it was sold

  • Nationwide
  • PR

Why it was recalled

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics has identified an anomaly with VITROS System Software Version 3.0 and below. Internal testing confirmed that under very specific conditions, incorrect patient demographics were associated with a sample identification (ID) number.

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 May 21, 2018 · Data as of Sep 19, 5:18 PM UTC

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