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Becton Dickinson & Co.: Difco" Agar Noble, 500g bottle Noble Agar is a solidifying agent that is essentially free of impurities. It is used in electrophoretic and nutritional procedures and in preparing microbiological culture media when increased purity is required.
- Recall number
- Z-0935-2018
- Recalling firm
- Becton Dickinson & Co.
- Product
- Difco" Agar Noble, 500g bottle Noble Agar is a solidifying agent that is essentially free of impurities. It is used in electrophoretic and nutritional procedures and in preparing microbiological culture media when increased purity is required.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2017-10-03
- Posted
- not on file
- Terminated
- 2018-10-09
- Reason
- HighPuragar was mislabeled and inadvertently sold as Noble Agar.
- Root cause
- Mixed-up of materials/components
- Action
- On October 3, 2017 an URGENT MEDICAL DEVICE PRODUCT RECA:LL letter was mailed to customers informing them of the recall and requesting that their inventory be checked for product, which should be quarantined and then thrown away. Also, to share notification of recall to any other customers that may have received product. Firm will replace any discarded inventory. Questions or concerns can be directed to: 1-800-638-8663.
- Quantity
- 216 bottles
- Distribution
- USA (nationwide) Distribution to the states of and including Puerto Rico : AL, AZ, CA, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA,TN, TX, UT, VA, WA
- Lot, serial or model codes
- catalog number 214230, lot 7109502
- 510(k) numbers
- not on file
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- JSO
- Firm FEI
- 1119779
- Firm city
- Sparks
- Firm state
- MD
- 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
- Source file retained · verify
- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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