FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Biomerieux: Etest Piperacillin/tazobactam (4 ug/mL) PTc0.016-256-pack of 30 tests WW Etest is a quantitative technique for determining the antimicrobial susceptibility of Gram-negative and Gram-positive aerobic bacteria.
- Recall number
- Z-0439-2016
- Recalling firm
- Biomerieux
- Product
- Etest Piperacillin/tazobactam (4 ug/mL) PTc0.016-256-pack of 30 tests WW Etest is a quantitative technique for determining the antimicrobial susceptibility of Gram-negative and Gram-positive aerobic bacteria.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2015-11-19
- Posted
- 2015-12-23
- Terminated
- 2017-06-19
- Reason
- Due to the potential for reporting erroneous results for Piperacillin/Tazobactam; specifically false susceptible results.
- Root cause
- Process change control
- Action
- Consignees (Subsidiaries and Distributors) of bioMrieux, impacted by the identified issue, were notified of the FSCA and corrective action (FSCA notification) electronically on November 24th, 2015. Additionally, the bioMrieux United States subsidiary notified US consignees (distributors/end-users) of the FSCA notification via FedEx on December 2nd, 2015.
- Quantity
- 5458 units
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution- US Nationwide including DC and the states of AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GS, HI, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV and WY, and the countries of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Macedonia, Oman, Netherlands, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slavonia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, Vietnam and Venezuela.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Ref. 412434, Lot numbers: 1004331500, 1004271120, 1004178060, 1003977300, 1003697470, 1003415090, 1003276060, 1003069230, 1002488490 and 1001936360.
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K953223"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- JWY
- Firm FEI
- 1000611339
- Firm city
- Letoile
- Firm state
- not on file
- Firm country
- France
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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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