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General Electric Medical Systems Information Technology: MAC-LAB 5000EX systems

Recall number
Z-0785-03
Recalling firm
General Electric Medical Systems Information Technology
Product
MAC-LAB 5000EX systems
Status
Terminated
Initiated
2003-04-14
Posted
2003-04-25
Terminated
2004-06-24
Reason
There is an incorrect jumper set-up on a motherboard of the devices that could eventually cause a polyfuse to overheat resulting in smoke.
Root cause
Other
Action
A letter was sent to the consignees on April 14, 2003 and requested that the consignees correct the device or contact the firm to have them perform the correction.
Quantity
not on file
Distribution
The recalled products were shipped to hospitals located nationwide in the United States and to other consignees located worldwide.
Lot, serial or model codes
The affected systems have serial numbers with XC and 4A as 3rd and 4th characters in the serial number
510(k) numbers
not on file
PMA numbers
not on file
Product code
KMI
Firm FEI
2124823
Firm city
Milwaukee
Firm state
WI
Firm country
not on file

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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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