FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Ethicon, Inc.: PDS II (polydioxanone) Suture, Ethicon, Inc., A Johnson & Johnson Company, Somerville, NJ. Sutures are intended for general soft tissue approximation and/or ligation.
- Recall number
- Z-1313-2009
- Recalling firm
- Ethicon, Inc.
- Product
- PDS II (polydioxanone) Suture, Ethicon, Inc., A Johnson & Johnson Company, Somerville, NJ. Sutures are intended for general soft tissue approximation and/or ligation.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2009-02-02
- Posted
- 2009-05-12
- Terminated
- 2009-10-21
- Reason
- Sterility Issue: The firm decided to remove the product because it cannot assure the sterility of the products due to a failure in the sterilization process.
- Root cause
- Process control
- Action
- Urgent Voluntary Product Recall notification letters were sent via UPS Next Day Air with receipt on February 2, 2009. Letters were sent to customers, Directors of Surgical Services, Director of Risk Management, Materials Manager and Distributors. The letters requested that customers immediately discontinue use of the products with lot numbers listed. Customers are to identify and return only the boxes identified in the attached tables. The affected product should be returned to Ethicon via the pre-paid authorized shipping label. Customers that are not returning affected product should mail the enclosed business reply card to Ethicon. Customers should direct questions regarding this recall to 1-888-202-3694 or their Ethicon sales representative. 5/13/09: It was discovered that a lot of PDS II sutures that had been previously identified as affected but not distributed, were mistakenly distributed. Revised letters including this number were sent to 25 customers on 5/13/09.
- Quantity
- 1,758,360 total
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution -- USA, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Korea, Luxemburg, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Lot # Expiration Date APM091 2013-07-31 12:00AM APM861 2013-07-31 12:00AM APZ105 2013-07-31 12:00AM AMK590 2013-07-31 12:00AM APZ721 2013-07-31 12:00AM APZ098 2013-07-31 12:00AM APZ283 2013-07-31 12:00AM APM692 2013-07-31 12:00AM APM753 2013-07-31 12:00AM AP6005 2013-07-31 12:00AM APM748 2013-07-31 12:00AM APZ367 2013-07-31 12:00AM APM298 2013-07-31 12:00AM APZ245 2013-07-31 12:00AM AP6053 APZ644 2013-07-31 12:00AM APM524 2013-07-31 12:00AM APZ908 2013-07-31 12:00AM AP6061 2013-07-31 12:00AM APM635 2013-07-31 12:00AM APZ126 2013-07-31 12:00AM APZ298 2013-07-31 12:00AM APZ153 2013-07-31 12:00AM APZ381 2013-07-31 12:00AM AP2315 2013-07-31 12:00AM AP2333 2013-07-31 12:00AM AP2331 2013-07-31 12:00AM AP2332 2013-07-31 12:00AM AP2241 2013-07-31 12:00AM AP2355 2013-07-31 12:00AM APM221 2013-07-31 12:00AM APM844 2013-07-31 12:00AM
- 510(k) numbers
- not on file
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- GAM
- Firm FEI
- 2210968
- Firm city
- Somerville
- 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
- 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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