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Event 65131

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
May 06, 2013
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.

Dossier provenance

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  • openFDA Device Enforcement Report-date coverage June 20, 2012–July 08, 2026 Known gap: openFDA describes 2004-present coverage, but the current export has no report-date records in this interval.
  • openFDA Device Recall event_date_initiated coverage June 01, 1997–June 30, 2026

Enforcement coverage uses report dates; product initiation dates can precede those bounds. Device-enrichment coverage uses FDA event_date_initiated.

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Dimension(R) Chemistry Wash (RD701), Siemens Material Number (SMN) 10445052 Product Usage: Used in the Dimension(R) system with the heterogeneous module

Z-0561-2014
Recall number
Z-0561-2014
Initiated
May 06, 2013
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Quantity
17,719

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics received complaints of Chemistry Wash causing QC and patient sample result shifts on CTN1, LTN1, FT4, TSH, PBNP and LPBN when using Chemistry Wash lots RD23031, RD23111, RD23241, RD23311, RD23391, and RD23461. These lots shipped between 12/12/2012 and 3/22/2013. Internal investigation has confirmed shifts can be encountered in two scenarios: 1 - When an affected l

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Reason for recall

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics received complaints of Chemistry Wash causing QC and patient sample result shifts on CTN1, LTN1, FT4, TSH, PBNP and LPBN when using Chemistry Wash lots RD23031, RD23111, RD23241, RD23311, RD23391, and RD23461. These lots shipped between 12/12/2012 and 3/22/2013. Internal investigation has confirmed shifts can be encountered in two scenarios: 1 - When an affected l

Code information

Lot numbers RD23031, exp 2013-04-29; RD23111, exp 2013-05-07; RD23241, exp 2013-05-19; RD23311, exp 2013-06-04; and RD23461, exp 2013-06-11

Distribution pattern

US Nationwide and OUS.