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Device product

VITROS Immunodiagnostic Products CK-MB Calibrators, REF 128 6293, IVD, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics High Wycombe HP12 4DP, UK For use in the calibration of the VITROS ECi/ECiQ Immunodiagnostic Systems, the VITROS 3600 Immunodiagnostic System and the VITROS 5600 Integrated System for the quantitative measurement of CK-MB in human serum and plasma (EDTA or heparin).

Z-1337-2013

April 03, 2013

Class III

Product summary

Firm
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
Event
Event 64901
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class III
Quantity
Domestic: 3019 units, Foreign: 905 units
Official record key
device-enforcement:Z-1337-2013

Official wording

Reason: Internal testing demonstrated that opened-reconstituted VITROS CK-MB Calibrators stored at -20 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Farenheit) generated invalid calibrations that were detected by positively biased quality control results.

Code information: Lots 1400 (exp. 22 April 2013), 1410 (exp. 20 May 2013), 1420 (exp. 12 July 2013), 1430 (exp. 5 August 2013) , 1440 (exp. 10 September 2013), 1450 (exp. 18 November 2013), 1460 (exp. 18 November 2013), 1465 (exp. 13 November 2013), 1480 (exp. 3 January 2014)

Distribution pattern: Worldwide Distribution - Nationwide including Puerto Rico, and the countries of Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Singapore, Spain and Venezuela.

Derived failure modes

  • Unknown

    reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0

    Internal testing demonstrated that opened-reconstituted VITROS CK-MB Calibrators stored at -20 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Farenheit) generated invalid calibrations that were detected by positively biased quality control results.