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Device product

VITROS 3600 Chemistry System, Catalog Number 6802783, Unique Device Identifier Number 10758750009930, Software Product Code 6802866, Software Version 3.2 and below; IVD. Product Usage: For use in the in vitro quantitative, semi-quantitative, and qualitative measurement of a variety of analytes of clinical interest, using VITROS Immunodiagnostic Products Reagents.

Z-0640-2016

November 03, 2015

Class II

Product summary

Firm
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
Event
Event 72597
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class II
Quantity
Domestic: 200, Foreign: 554
Official record key
device-enforcement:Z-0640-2016

Official wording

Reason: Software anomaly may allow VITROS Systems to sample and process assays while the fluids and reagent temperatures are not in the required temperature range for optimal processing. When this intermittent issue occurs, the VITROS Systems continue to operate and process results without notification to the User, possibly producing erroneous results.

Code information: Software Version 3.2 and below; Serial Numbers J36000012 - 36000879

Distribution pattern: Worldwide Distribution - US Nationwide and the countries of Puerto Rico, and foreign distribution to: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, and Venezuela.

Derived failure modes

  • Device software or design

    reason.device_software_design · v1.0.0

    Software anomaly