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Event 69827

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
November 17, 2014
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class III
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Clark Laboratories, Inc. (dba,Trinity Biotech USA)

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

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Trinity biotech Captia (TM) Syphilis IgM Capture Test Kit, Product No./REF 800-935, Test Kit for 96 Determinations, IVD for In Vitro Diagnostic use; an antibody class capture enzyme immunoassay for the detection of IgM antibodies to T. pallidum as an aid to the identification of active syphilis in human serum.

Z-0819-2015
Recall number
Z-0819-2015
Initiated
November 17, 2014
Classification
Class III
Status
Terminated
Quantity
Domestic: 9 kits; Foreign: 26 kits

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
Through in-house routine real time stability monitoring of Trinity's Captia Syphilis IgM Capture Test Kit, Lot 033, the firm identified a failure of the kit to meet its labeled expiry dating of 6 months.

These labels are deterministic app interpretations, not FDA categories.

Official device-enrichment evidence · Unknown

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Reason for recall

Through in-house routine real time stability monitoring of Trinity's Captia Syphilis IgM Capture Test Kit, Lot 033, the firm identified a failure of the kit to meet its labeled expiry dating of 6 months.

Code information

Lot 033, expiry date 30 November 2014

Distribution pattern

New York, Florida, Utah, and California plus foreign distribution to Spain and France