FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Becton Dickinson & Company: BD Vacutainer Buffered Sodium Citrate: (9NC) Blood Collection Tube (4.5 ml x 13 x 75 mm) Catalog Number: 369714 Product Usage: The BD Vacutainer Safety Coagulation tube is an evacuated blood collection tube that provides means of collecting, transporting and processing blood in a closed tube. The buffered sodium citrate additive provides an anti-coagulated specimen that may be used for clinical laboratory coagulation assays and determinations
- Recall number
- Z-1189-2017
- Recalling firm
- Becton Dickinson & Company
- Product
- BD Vacutainer Buffered Sodium Citrate: (9NC) Blood Collection Tube (4.5 ml x 13 x 75 mm) Catalog Number: 369714 Product Usage: The BD Vacutainer Safety Coagulation tube is an evacuated blood collection tube that provides means of collecting, transporting and processing blood in a closed tube. The buffered sodium citrate additive provides an anti-coagulated specimen that may be used for clinical laboratory coagulation assays and determinations
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2017-01-16
- Posted
- not on file
- Terminated
- 2018-02-07
- Reason
- A portion of this lot of blood collection tubes was manufactured with approximately twice the expected amount of buffered sodium citrate additive, an anticoagulant.
- Root cause
- Process control
- Action
- BD sent an Urgent Product Recall letter dated January 16, 2017 to customers. The letter identified the affected product, problem and actions to be taken. Customers were instructed to complete the Customer Recall Response Form and fax the completed form back to BD at 1-844-388-5534 or email the completed form to bd8872@stericycle.com. For questions call 1-844-265-7408.
- Quantity
- 1,488,800 tubes
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution - US Nationwide and the countries of Canada, Mexico, Indonesia
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Lot 6090572
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K945952"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- JKA
- Firm FEI
- 2243072
- Firm city
- Franklin Lakes
- Firm state
- NJ
- 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
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- Size
- 288210821 bytes
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
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- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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