Reported Aug 15, 2012 · Terminated

Dimension Vista(R) Vancomycin Flex(R) Reagent Cartridge (VANC, Catalog # K4086). For the quantitative measurement of…

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.

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: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc. · 500 GBC Drive, Mailstop 514 · Newark, DE · 19714-6101

Is this the product you have?

  • Dimension Vista(R) Vancomycin Flex(R) Reagent Cartridge (VANC, Catalog # K4086). For the quantitative measurement of vancomycin in human serum and plasma on the Dimension Vista system.
Lot codes and dates
    • lot 12095AD
    • exp 2013-04-04
Amount recalled
1,894 cartons

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 has received complaints of customers experiencing slopes >1.05 when calibrating Flex(R) reagent cartridge lot 12095AD. This results in a slope failure and prevents the VANC assay from being run on the Dimension Vista(R) System.

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 Jan 14, 2014 · Data as of Sep 19, 5:23 PM UTC

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