FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc: Siemens Healthcare Caps for capillary 140/175 uL, Package count 100 For use with blood collection Multicap glass and Multicap-S plastic capillaries SMN: 10311054 Legacy Part number: 478605
- Recall number
- Z-1257-2015
- Recalling firm
- Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc
- Product
- Siemens Healthcare Caps for capillary 140/175 uL, Package count 100 For use with blood collection Multicap glass and Multicap-S plastic capillaries SMN: 10311054 Legacy Part number: 478605
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2015-01-22
- Posted
- 2015-03-06
- Terminated
- 2016-04-13
- Reason
- Capillary Caps for RAPIDLyte Multicap and Multicap-S Blood Collection Capillaries may not attach and result in breakage of the glass capillary
- Root cause
- Nonconforming Material/Component
- Action
- Siemens Healthcare issued an Urgent Field Safety Notice via e-mail to affected Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Regional offices on January 22, 2015 both in the United States and elsewhere for communication with affected customers. Siemens advises customers to use caution when applying the Capillary Caps with Siemens Multicap glass and Multicap-S plastic capillaries to minimize the potential for breakage or bending.
- Quantity
- 32384
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution. US Nationwide, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Curacao, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- All lot codes
- 510(k) numbers
- not on file
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- JKA
- Firm FEI
- 3002637618
- Firm city
- Norwood
- Firm state
- MA
- 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
- Source file
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- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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