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Event 72038

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
August 18, 2015
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Zien Medical Technologies, Inc

Dossier provenance

Source snapshots represented here

  • 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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device · product 1 of 1

PenBlade Safety Scalpel, for the incision of human skin and tissue, and to cut or trim sutures and catheters up to 6Fr. Models PB-M-10, PB-M-11P, PB-M-15

Z-2800-2015
Recall number
Z-2800-2015
Initiated
August 18, 2015
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Quantity
28,284

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
Cracks were discovered in the PET tray of a small population of sterile product. These cracks create a risk of loss of sterile barrier for the product. Sampling and root cause analysis indicated that the risk could extend throughout the lots manufactured from September 2014-July 2015. This led to the decision to recall the product.

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Reason for recall

Cracks were discovered in the PET tray of a small population of sterile product. These cracks create a risk of loss of sterile barrier for the product. Sampling and root cause analysis indicated that the risk could extend throughout the lots manufactured from September 2014-July 2015. This led to the decision to recall the product.

Code information

Product Code PB-M-10, Lots 140901J-A, 150228PB10, 150509PB10, 150510PB10; Product Code PB-M-11P, Lots 140901J-B, 150227PB11, 150318PB11, 150509PB11, 150510PB11; Product Code PB-M-15, Lots 140901J-C, 150226PB15, 150326PB15, 150511PB15, 150512PB15, 150529PB15.

Distribution pattern

Worldwide distribution to U.S. nationwide, Germany and England.