FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Abbott Laboratories: CELL-DYN Hemoglobin Reagent Syringe used on the CELL-DYN Sapphire Automated Hematology Analyzer. Abbott Labs, Abbott Park, IL.
- Recall number
- Z-1165-2008
- Recalling firm
- Abbott Laboratories
- Product
- CELL-DYN Hemoglobin Reagent Syringe used on the CELL-DYN Sapphire Automated Hematology Analyzer. Abbott Labs, Abbott Park, IL.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2008-01-15
- Posted
- 2008-04-24
- Terminated
- 2010-12-23
- Reason
- Count may be out of specification--Hemoglobin background count may be out of specification (high) after installation of new CELL-DYN Sapphire Hemoglobin Reagent Syringes with packaging dates between May 8, 2007 and November 29, 2007.
- Root cause
- Process control
- Action
- On January 11, 2008, an Urgent Product Recall Letter and Customer Reply Form were sent to all currently active CELL-DYN Sapphire customers (end-users). The firm provided information for verification of replacement syringes and instructions if hemoglobin background is not within specification. A second Urgent Product Recall letter was sent on January 15, 2008. If this second Customer Reply Form is not faxed back to Abbott, customers will be contacted via an approved telephone protocol. For further information contact customer support at 1-877-4ABBOTT.
- Quantity
- 2,746 syringes were distributed.
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution-USA including states of AR, AZ, CA, GT, FL, GA, ID, IL, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OM, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, and WV and countries of Canada, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Chile, Columbia, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, and South Korea.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- All Hemoglobin Reagent Syringes, List No. 08H49-02, with packaging dates between May 8,2007 and November 29,2007. Each package is identified with product description "CDS HGB SRNG W/BU".
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K051215"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- GKZ
- Firm FEI
- 2919069
- Firm city
- Santa Clara
- Firm state
- CA
- 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
- sha256
- b87518bfe2e8
- Size
- 288210821 bytes
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
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