FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Animas Corporation: Battery Caps used with insulin pumps and glucose monitoring systems. The pump is used to help maintain blood glucose targets.
- Recall number
- Z-0290-2009
- Recalling firm
- Animas Corporation
- Product
- Battery Caps used with insulin pumps and glucose monitoring systems. The pump is used to help maintain blood glucose targets.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2008-08-04
- Posted
- 2008-11-25
- Terminated
- 2010-02-04
- Reason
- Unintentional rebooting: Pump products exhibit an intermittent loss of power due intermittent loss of contact between battery cap and battery canister resulting in the device resetting. The failure of the battery cap may result in failure of the device to administer insulin therapy which may result in hyperglycemia.
- Root cause
- Nonconforming Material/Component
- Action
- The recalling firm issued a notification letter to the patients with insulin pumps on 8/5/08 to inform them of the problem and that they needed to replace the battery. The recalling firm contacted OneTouch Ping users by telephone on 8/5/08 for this issue and another issue. The recalling firm issued letters to distributors informing them of the problem and notified customers to replace the batteries. In addition, a letter was issued to physicians to alert them of the situation with regard to current patients. Consumers can contact 1-800-423-4087 for additional information or questions.
- Quantity
- 1,388 caps
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution including USA (AR, CA, FL, KY, LA, MA, NE, OH, PA, SC, SD, TN, and UT) and countries of Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and Sweden.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Part Number: 100-158-01. All units (no serial numbers).
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K080639"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- LZG
- Firm FEI
- 3002920072
- Firm city
- West Chester
- Firm state
- PA
- Firm country
- not on file
Where this comes from
- 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
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- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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