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Device product

The Hulka Clip is a sterile packaged medical device that carries a two year expiration date. It is packaged two clips per procedural tray. Theses procedural trays are then sealed in a Tyvek/Mylar pouch and packaged in a cardboard shipping carton with ten pouches in each shipping carton.

Z-0037-2015

July 09, 2014

Class II

Product summary

Firm
Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp.
Event
Event 68777
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class II
Quantity
73 cartons (1,460 clips)
Official record key
device-enforcement:Z-0037-2015

Official wording

Reason: Richard Wolf Medical Instrument Corporation is recalling Hulka Clip Tubal Occluding Device lot 51000232. The devices are being recalled as a part of an investigation into a biocompatibility test discrepancy where the recalled lot (lot 51000232) passed final release testing, but the subsequent lot failed biocompatibility testing on a component that was also used to manufacture lot 51000232.

Code information: Product Code: 4986.09; Lot: 51000232

Distribution pattern: Worldwide distribution: US (Nationwide) including states of: (AK, AL, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, IN, KY, LA, MI, MO, MS, NC, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WV; and country of: Germany.

Derived failure modes

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    reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0

    Richard Wolf Medical Instrument Corporation is recalling Hulka Clip Tubal Occluding Device lot 51000232. The devices are being recalled as a part of an investigation into a biocompatibility test discrepancy where the recalled lot (lot 51000232) passed final release testing, but the subsequent lot failed biocompatibility testing on a component that was also used to manufacture lot 51000232.