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Event 75915

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
October 12, 2016
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Bausch & Lomb, 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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Algerbrush-II Product Usage: Medical - For surgeons to use in ophthalmic surgical procedures to remove foreign bodies from the eye of the patient

Z-0983-2017
Recall number
Z-0983-2017
Initiated
October 12, 2016
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Recalling firm
Bausch & Lomb, Inc.
Quantity
2487 units Domestic (USA), 1,211 units Foreign (outside USA)

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
According to firm ( Bausch & Lomb, Inc. ) on June 17, 2016 a packaging operator notified his supervisor he had not placed the operating instruction into the last repackaging of SKU 0816 C (Pterygium Burr Medium Diamond). Further investigation found that repackaged Algerbrush-II and its accessories from April 30, 2012 to present, contained out of date operating instruction. Therefore Bausch & Lomb is proposing a Field Correction to provide customer purchasing product from April 30, 2012 to June 20, 2016 with the current operating instruction.

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Official device-enrichment evidence · Sourced

Error in labeling

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Reason for recall

According to firm ( Bausch & Lomb, Inc. ) on June 17, 2016 a packaging operator notified his supervisor he had not placed the operating instruction into the last repackaging of SKU 0816 C (Pterygium Burr Medium Diamond). Further investigation found that repackaged Algerbrush-II and its accessories from April 30, 2012 to present, contained out of date operating instruction. Therefore Bausch & Lomb is proposing a Field Correction to provide customer purchasing product from April 30, 2012 to June 20, 2016 with the current operating instruction.

Code information

LOT #(s) AND EXPIRATION DATES, SERIAL #(s), ORDER #, or OTHER IDENTIFICATION #(s): SKU E0815 A, SKU E0815 B, SKU E0815 0.5, SKU E0815 1.0 and SKU E0816 C

Distribution pattern

Worldwide Distribution - US Nationwide