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Exact FDA event identifier

Event 79169

1 recalled-product record grouped only because every row carries this exact official event ID.

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
September 13, 2017
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Covidien LLC

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

Endo GIA Auto Suture Universal Articulating Loading Unit for use in abdominal, gynecologic, pediatric and thoracic surgery for resection, transection and creation of anastomosis.

Z-0636-2018
Recall number
Z-0636-2018
Initiated
September 13, 2017
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Recalling firm
Covidien LLC
Quantity
3,816

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
Potential for failure of the device safety interlock. The safety interlock prevents an empty single-use loading unit from being fired a second time.

These labels are deterministic app interpretations, not FDA categories.

Official device-enrichment evidence · Unknown

An exact joined enrichment record exists, but none supplies supported root-cause wording. This is not an FDA finding of an unknown cause.

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Reason for recall

Potential for failure of the device safety interlock. The safety interlock prevents an empty single-use loading unit from being fired a second time.

Code information

N7F1058KX, N7F1121KX, N7F1056KX, N7F1057KX

Distribution pattern

Nationally