FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Smith & Nephew, Inc., Endoscopy Div.: Biosure Ratchet Driver, Product No: 72201888 For delivery and placement of orthopedic screws. Arthroscopic surgical instrument
- Recall number
- Z-0700-2016
- Recalling firm
- Smith & Nephew, Inc., Endoscopy Div.
- Product
- Biosure Ratchet Driver, Product No: 72201888 For delivery and placement of orthopedic screws. Arthroscopic surgical instrument
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2013-04-04
- Posted
- 2016-01-29
- Terminated
- 2021-03-22
- Reason
- Driver does not meet specification, oversized. Driver may not be able to be fully inserted into the screw, or screw may become stuck on the driver.
- Root cause
- Employee error
- Action
- Smith & Nephew sent an "Urgent-Product Recall 1st. Notification" dated April 3, 2013, to all affected customers. The letter identified the product the problem and the action needed to be taken by the customer. Please inspect your inventory and locate all devices from the above listed product and lot numbers and quarantine them immediately. For further questions, please call (978) 749-1000.
- Quantity
- 9
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution - US Distribution to the states of : AK, AL, CA, CO, FL, IL, IN, MI, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN and TX., and to the countries of : Austria, Australia, Canada, Dubai, Great Britain, India, Italy, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Singapore and South Africa.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Lot Numbers: 50410950 and 50407175
- 510(k) numbers
- not on file
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- NBH
- Firm FEI
- 1219602
- Firm city
- Mansfield
- Firm state
- MA
- 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
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
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FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA) (U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)), device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip, sha256 b87518bfe2e8, published 2026-09-28