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Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics: VITROS Chemistry Products Calibrator Kit 9 Calibrator, 2 mL, Product Code 8568040, Unique Device Identifier No. 10758750005031, IVD -- Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. --- VITROS Chemistry Products Calibrator Kit 9 is used to calibrate VITROS 250/350/950/5,1 FS and 4600 Chemistry Systems and the VITROS 5600 Integrated System for the quantitative measurement of ACET, CRBM, DGXN, and PHYT.
- Recall number
- Z-0202-2016
- Recalling firm
- Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
- Product
- VITROS Chemistry Products Calibrator Kit 9 Calibrator, 2 mL, Product Code 8568040, Unique Device Identifier No. 10758750005031, IVD -- Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. --- VITROS Chemistry Products Calibrator Kit 9 is used to calibrate VITROS 250/350/950/5,1 FS and 4600 Chemistry Systems and the VITROS 5600 Integrated System for the quantitative measurement of ACET, CRBM, DGXN, and PHYT.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2015-09-28
- Posted
- 2015-11-02
- Terminated
- 2018-05-22
- Reason
- The firm is conducting a product correction due to an increase in U90-382 or 6LU condition codes (wash errors) when using VITROS Calibrator Kit 9, Lot 0954.
- Root cause
- Under Investigation by firm
- Action
- Customer letter (Ref. CL2015-191) was sent on 9/28/2015 via FedEx overnight courier and/or US Postal Service Priority Mail (for PO Boxes only) and /or ORTHO PLUS e-Communications to US consignees (OCD Direct, Drop-Ship and US Federal Government) to inform them of the issue and advise them to discontinue use of the affected calibrator lot, discard the remaining inventory of the affected lot and recalibrate VITROS DGXN and PHYT Slides using Cal Kit 9 with an alternative lot of calibrator kit 9 upon availability. Distributor letter (Ref. DL2015-191) was sent on 9/28/2015 via US Postal Service Priority Mail and/or FedEx overnight courier to US Distributor consignees and instructed to notify their consignees of the issue and the required actions. The foreign affiliates were notified via e-mail on 9/28/2015.
- Quantity
- Domestic: 2443 kits; Foreign: 1548 kits
- Distribution
- Nationwide, Puerto Rico and foreign distribution to the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Republic of Panama, Singapore, Spain and Venezuela
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Lot 0954, exp. date 31-May-2016
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K081543","K941142"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- JIT
- Firm FEI
- 1000305841
- Firm city
- Rochester
- Firm state
- NY
- Firm country
- not on file
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- Register
- FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)
- File
- device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
- sha256
- b87518bfe2e8
- Size
- 288210821 bytes
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
- Source file
- Source file retained · verify
- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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