FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.: Dade Actin Activated Cephaloplastin Reagent; Liquid rabbit brain cephalin with plasma activator for use in the determination of the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) and other coagulation procedures requiring an activated partial thromboplastin reagent.
- Recall number
- Z-1703-2015
- Recalling firm
- Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.
- Product
- Dade Actin Activated Cephaloplastin Reagent; Liquid rabbit brain cephalin with plasma activator for use in the determination of the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) and other coagulation procedures requiring an activated partial thromboplastin reagent.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2015-03-25
- Posted
- 2015-06-02
- Terminated
- 2017-01-24
- Reason
- Recovery for assayed controls are out of assigned ranges. A drift >3 seconds in the normal APTT range and/or >15% in the pathological range has been observed. Patient samples with recoveries close to the medical decision points could exhibit a deviation up to 4 seconds for the normal range and up to 33% for the pathological range.
- Root cause
- Under Investigation by firm
- Action
- On March 24, 2015 an Urgent Medical Device Recall letter was mailed to all affected customers to notify them about the issue, associated risks, and actions to be taken.
- Quantity
- 27501
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution. US naionwide including Puerto Rico, Barbados and Mexico.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Catalog Number B4218-1, Material Number 10445709, lot numbers 557128, 557129, 557130, 557131, 557132, 557133, 557134, 557135, 557140, 557141 , expiration dates:10/31/2015, 11/21/2015, 2/16/2016
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K760318"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- GFO
- Firm FEI
- 2517506
- Firm city
- Newark
- Firm state
- DE
- 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
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- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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