VITROS Chemistry Products PHBR (Phenobarbital) Slides, REF 822 1384. For the quantitative measure of phenobarbital (PHBR) concentration in serum and plasma.

Reason: Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) received customer complaints of intermittent imprecision, outliers, or shifts in accuracy and control fluid values outside of expected intervals when using VITROS Chemistry Products PHBR Slides. OCD's investigation confirmed that positively biased values for patient samples could be obtained that may not be detected by quality control fluids.

Code information: All Lot Numbers containing: GEN 38, Coating No. 0060, Expiration Date Range 03/01/13 through 07/01/13; GEN 39, Coating No. 0062, Expiration Date Range 07/01/13 through 09/01/13; GEN 40, Coating No. 0063, Expiration Date Range 10/01/13 through 12/01/13; GEN 41, Coating No. 0064, Expiration Date Range 12/01/13 through 02/01/14. [A Coating (CTG) is a unique identifier within the Lot Number of some of OCD's products. The term GEN and CTG refer to a specific segments of the reagent lot number. Current lots within expiry were all from Coatings 0060, 0062, 0063 or 0064.].

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