Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc: HPBLUE: HARMONIC Blue Hand Piece; HP054: HARMONIC Hand Piece; Non-Sterile products are individually packed in a poly bag and then placed into an individual carton. Mfr. By: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLc, 475 Calle C, Guaynbo, PR 00969. Indicated for soft tissue incisions when bleeding control and minimal thermal injury are desired. The instruments can be used as an adjunct to or substitute for electrosurgery, lasers, and steel scalpels.

Recall number

Z-1673-2012

Recalling firm

Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc

Product

HPBLUE: HARMONIC Blue Hand Piece; HP054: HARMONIC Hand Piece; Non-Sterile products are individually packed in a poly bag and then placed into an individual carton. Mfr. By: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLc, 475 Calle C, Guaynbo, PR 00969. Indicated for soft tissue incisions when bleeding control and minimal thermal injury are desired. The instruments can be used as an adjunct to or substitute for electrosurgery, lasers, and steel scalpels.

Status

Terminated

Initiated

2012-03-16

Posted

2012-05-25

Terminated

2013-03-05

Reason

Ethicon Endo-Surgery initiated a voluntary recall due to some lot numbers of the HARMONIC Hand Piece (HP054) and the HARMONIC Blue Hand Piece (HPBLUE), which impacts their compatibility with the HARMONIC Generator 300 (GEN04). The problem occurs after successful set up and initial use of HARMONIC Hand Pieces (HP054 and HPBLUE) with the Generator 300 (GEN04). The procedure is interrupted when

Root cause

Nonconforming Material/Component

Action

Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc sent an URGENT: Product Correction Notification letter dated March 2012 to all affected customers. The letter identified the product, the problem, the action to be taken by the customer. Labels were enclosed that are used to identify the recalled product. Customers were instructed to fill out the Business Reply Form and fax it to Stericycle at 1-888-912-7091 within three business days for a credit. For questions regarding this recall call 513-337-3419.

Quantity

1896 instruments

Distribution

Worldwide Distribution-USA including: AK,AL,AR,AZ,CA,CO,CT,DE,FL,GA,HI,IA,ID,IL,IN,KS,KY,LA,MA,MD,ME,MI,MN,MO,MS,MT,NCND,NE,NH,NJ,NM,NV,NY,OH,OK,OR,PA,RI,SC,SD,TN,TX,UT,VA,VT,WA,WI,WV, and WY. and the countries of: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Ecuador, Egypt, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Korea (South),Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Antilles, Pakistan, Panama, Puerto Rico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates Uruguay, Venezuela & Yemen.

Lot, serial or model codes

HARMONIC¿ HP054 Hand Pieces Lot Numbers produced to-date: H92Y3M, J9039C, J90817, J90E7C, J9000C, J90432, J9084W, J90E7Z, J90029, J90470, J9088L, J90F3G,J9006C, J9054E, J9093L, J90F7Z, J9011D, J9056K, J9095C, J90G32, J90151, J9057V,J90974, J90G9Y,J9018H, J9058L, J90A45, J90H37,J9020F, J90624, J90A72, J90H4U, 9023D, J90681, J90C7X, J90H7D,J9027C, J9069F, J90C84, J90H9Y,J90314, J90726, J90D4N, J90J2N,J9034N, J90762, J90E0R, J90J8E,J9038W, J9076A, and J90E29.   HARMONIC¿ HPBLUE Hand Pieces Lot Numbers produced to-date: J9001P, J9053N, J9091G, J90D84,J9005J, J9057E, J90A2C, J90E55,J9010E, J9065U, J90A64, J90F76,J9042G, J90696, J90C36, J90G4C,J9050E, J9086W, J90C7U, and J90H46.

510(k) numbers

["K063192"]

PMA numbers

not on file

Product code

LFL

Firm FEI

1527736

Firm city

Cincinnati

Firm state

OH

Firm country

not on file

Cite as

FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA) (U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)), device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip, sha256 b87518bfe2e8, published 2026-09-28

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