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Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc: VARIANT II TURBO Hemoglobin Testing System with CDM 3.6T Software Version 3.5; Model Number: 270-2600; Product is manufactured and distributed by Bio-Rad Laboratories, Diagnostics Group, Hercules, CA. Provides an integrated method for sample preparation, separation and the percent determination of percent hemoglobin A1c in EDTA human whole blood.

Recall number
Z-1902-2010
Recalling firm
Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc
Product
VARIANT II TURBO Hemoglobin Testing System with CDM 3.6T Software Version 3.5; Model Number: 270-2600; Product is manufactured and distributed by Bio-Rad Laboratories, Diagnostics Group, Hercules, CA. Provides an integrated method for sample preparation, separation and the percent determination of percent hemoglobin A1c in EDTA human whole blood.
Status
Terminated
Initiated
2009-01-22
Posted
2010-06-25
Terminated
2011-03-22
Reason
Sample test results for the first run appears to be correct but all subsequent results during that run were assigned incorrect barcode and tube position.
Root cause
Software design
Action
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. issued and "Urgent: Medical Device Correction" dated January 22, 2009 to all affected consignees by FED EX, followed up by telephone calls for those not responding. Consignees were instructed on proper steps to take in dealing with the affected product. Further communication will follow to provide a solution. For further information, contact Bio-Rad Laboratories at 1-510-724-7000.
Quantity
not on file
Distribution
Worldwide Distribution -- United States, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Kingdom.
Lot, serial or model codes
All units of these models.
510(k) numbers
["K984268"]
PMA numbers
not on file
Product code
LCP
Firm FEI
2915274
Firm city
Hercules
Firm state
CA
Firm country
not on file

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File
device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
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b87518bfe2e8
Published
2026-09-28
Read
2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z

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