FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Baxter Healthcare Corp.: Baxter HEP-LOCK (Heparin Lock Flush Solution, USP) 100 units/mL-10 mL vial, 25 pack, NDC 0641-2436-45, (NDC 0641-2436-41; on vial), Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Deerfield, IL 60015
- Recall number
- Z-1390-2008
- Recalling firm
- Baxter Healthcare Corp.
- Product
- Baxter HEP-LOCK (Heparin Lock Flush Solution, USP) 100 units/mL-10 mL vial, 25 pack, NDC 0641-2436-45, (NDC 0641-2436-41; on vial), Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Deerfield, IL 60015
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2008-02-28
- Posted
- 2008-04-04
- Terminated
- 2020-02-18
- Reason
- Due to an increase of adverse events in Baxter single and multi-dose Heparin for injection products, which used the same active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) source as the HEP LOCK products
- Root cause
- Nonconforming Material/Component
- Action
- A Press Release was issued on February 28, 2008. Recall notification letters , Urgent Product Recall, were sent on February 29, 2008, by overnight mail to customers/wholesalers/ distributors and dialysis center/renal home patients. Recall letters were also sent on March 7, 2008, to health care professionals
- Quantity
- 529,125 vials
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution --Worldwide: USA including Puerto Rico, and countries of Germany, Guam, America Samoa, Marshal Islands, Northern Mariana Island/Virgin Islands, and Qatar . Accounts included wholesalers, pharmacies, hospitals, and clinic/renal home patients
- Lot, serial or model codes
- All Lots
- 510(k) numbers
- not on file
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- NZW
- Firm FEI
- 1416980
- Firm city
- Round Lake
- Firm state
- IL
- 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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