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Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.: ADVIA Chemistry Enzyme 2 Calibrator, multi-analyte mixture Product Usage: Assays included in Enzyme 2 Calibrator: AST, AST_c ALT, ALT_c, ALTP5P, ALTP_c, ASTP5P and ASTP_c
- Recall number
- Z-1712-2017
- Recalling firm
- Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.
- Product
- ADVIA Chemistry Enzyme 2 Calibrator, multi-analyte mixture Product Usage: Assays included in Enzyme 2 Calibrator: AST, AST_c ALT, ALT_c, ALTP5P, ALTP_c, ASTP5P and ASTP_c
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2017-02-23
- Posted
- 2017-03-15
- Terminated
- 2018-05-09
- Reason
- Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has confirmed a positive bias of up to 41% in quality control and patient results for Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST) and Aspartate Aminotransferase concentrated (AST_c) assays following calibration with Advia Chemistry Enzyme 2 Calibrator lots 6JD079 and 6MD042.
- Root cause
- Under Investigation by firm
- Action
- Siemens mailed an Urgent Medical Device Correction Notice to affected customers on 02/21/2017. The notice informed calibrator customers of the reason for the correction, risk to health, and actions to be taken by customers who are in the process of converting from the fixed factor to the enzyme calibrated assay and information for customers who had already converted, until the investigation is complete.
- Quantity
- 314 calibrators
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution - United States Nationwide: Denmark Sweden Norway Great Britain Belgium Netherlands Spain Israel Switzerland France Portugal Greece Germany Slovenia Czech Republic Hong Kong Colombia Korea Australia
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Lots 6JD079 and 6MD042
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K103836"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- JIS
- Firm FEI
- 2517506
- Firm city
- Newark
- Firm state
- DE
- Firm country
- not on file
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- Register
- FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)
- File
- device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
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- 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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