FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Abbott Diagnostic International, Ltd.: ARCHITECT AUSAB Controls list number 1L82-10 have two bottles with the following components: 1) Negative Control and 2) Positive Control. in vitro diagnostic.
- Recall number
- Z-1098-2007
- Recalling firm
- Abbott Diagnostic International, Ltd.
- Product
- ARCHITECT AUSAB Controls list number 1L82-10 have two bottles with the following components: 1) Negative Control and 2) Positive Control. in vitro diagnostic.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2007-05-14
- Posted
- 2007-07-24
- Terminated
- 2011-06-10
- Reason
- During an internal study, the Architect AUSAB assay was found to read preparations of the WHO standard up to 53% higher than the WHO assigned value. This has the potential to cause elevated results and may impact the interpretation for a small percentage of results with grayzone or low-level reactive concentrations and higher proficiency sample results.
- Root cause
- Other
- Action
- All ARCHITECT AUSAB U.S. customers will be contacted. New customers will be contacted through a Product Information Letter that will be included in all ARCHITECT AUSAB Reagent Kits until assay is restandardized. All ARCHITECT AUSAB U.S. customers will be contacted. The following communication types were used: Product Correction Letter Customer Reply Form > Product Information Letter to be included in new kits to be distributed. Letters were sent to customers by Federal Express Priority mail. The Customers were instructed to: Please follow their laboratory procedures for evaluation of these results Disregard the automated interpretation of results for low-level reactive samples. A customer reply form will accompany the Product Correction letter. Effectiveness Check Depth: 100% of customers receiving the Product Correction letter. The start date of communication was May 14,2007.
- Quantity
- 393
- Distribution
- Nationwide and Puerto Rico
- Lot, serial or model codes
- LIST # 01L82-10 Lots # 48253Q101 Exp Date 09/26/2007, 48253Q100Exp Date 06/19/2007, 45556Q100 Exp Date 03/14/2007, 45557Q100 Exp Date 01/01/2007, 44595Q100 Exp Date 02/28/2007, and 42586Q100 Exp Date 01/01/2007
- 510(k) numbers
- not on file
- PMA numbers
- ["P050051"]
- Product code
- LOM
- Firm FEI
- 2623532
- Firm city
- Barceloneta
- Firm state
- PR
- Firm country
- not on file
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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
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- 288210821 bytes
- Published
- 2026-09-28
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