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Recall Observatory FDA recall evidence

Device product

Art-Line Surgery Pack-LF, STERILE, 40 packs each per case.

Z-2976-2018

April 12, 2017

Class II

Product summary

Firm
Medline Industries, Inc.
Event
Event 78411
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class II
Quantity
3,000 kits
Official record key
device-enforcement:Z-2976-2018

Official wording

Reason: Multiple surgical packs were assembled with a non-sterile CHG disk labeled as BIOPATCH" (kit component #52655) attached to the outside of the sterile pack. This may pose potential risk of infection. However, the kits have been in distribution since March 2016. Many of these kits have been used with no reported infections or adverse patient events. In addition, the BIOPATCH is impregnated with CHG, a well-known antiseptic agent with broad-spectrum anti-microbial and antifungal activity.

Code information: Item number: DYNJ0165296D. Lots: 16CK2326; 16DK0985; 16DK2816; 16GK2433; 16IK0634; 16KK0117; 17AK1788; 17BK2514

Distribution pattern: CA, NM

Derived failure modes

  • Unknown

    reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0

    Multiple surgical packs were assembled with a non-sterile CHG disk labeled as BIOPATCH" (kit component #52655) attached to the outside of the sterile pack. This may pose potential risk of infection. However, the kits have been in distribution since March 2016. Many of these kits have been used with no reported infections or adverse patient events. In addition, the BIOPATCH is impregnated with CHG, a well-known antiseptic agent with broad-spectrum anti-microbial and antifungal activity.