FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Becton Dickinson & Co.: BBL Columbia C.N.A. Agar w/5% Sheep Blood - Catalog Number 297831.
- Recall number
- Z-1326-04
- Recalling firm
- Becton Dickinson & Co.
- Product
- BBL Columbia C.N.A. Agar w/5% Sheep Blood - Catalog Number 297831.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2004-07-02
- Posted
- 2004-08-07
- Terminated
- 2004-12-21
- Reason
- Sheep Blood products may be contaminated with a Brucella species (B. ovis).
- Root cause
- Other
- Action
- Distributors were notified by fax, all customers were notified by fax with a UPS overnight delivery of hard copy of recall letter to same customers. BD International was notified be e-mail. Distributor fax indicated that BD required their customer lists immediately due to the nature of the recall event. BD received all Distributor customer lists on the same day (7/2/04). Will monitor the number of consignees non-responding to the recall through sending a letter that contains a form that we ask the end-user to return. Response forms will be reconciled. Distribution of the affected lots ceased on 7/1/04. Customers are asked to discard their inventory.
- Quantity
- 150 each
- Distribution
- 83 (76 end-users, 3 international BD facilities and 4 distributors) worldwide.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Lot number: 4154491 and Expiration date: August 19, 2004
- 510(k) numbers
- not on file
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- JSO
- Firm FEI
- 1119779
- Firm city
- Sparks
- Firm state
- MD
- 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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