FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Becton Dickinson & Company: BD Vacutainer SST Plus Blood Collection Tubes, 5.0 mL, 13 x 100 mm, Sterile. Provides a means of collecting, transporting, separating, and processing blood in a closed tube.
- Recall number
- Z-2434-2015
- Recalling firm
- Becton Dickinson & Company
- Product
- BD Vacutainer SST Plus Blood Collection Tubes, 5.0 mL, 13 x 100 mm, Sterile. Provides a means of collecting, transporting, separating, and processing blood in a closed tube.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2015-06-23
- Posted
- 2015-08-20
- Terminated
- 2016-04-06
- Reason
- Some of the tubes were manufactured with stoppers that did not meet current manufacturing specifications. Stoppers were manufactured with a reduced cycle cure time.
- Root cause
- Process control
- Action
- Becton Dickinson notified their affected customers of this recall by sending them an Urgent Product Recall Letter dated June 23, 2015 via UPS 2nd Day.
- Quantity
- 238, 000 (Lot #5133959) and 243,000 (Lot #5133957)
- Distribution
- Distributed in FL, IL, MA, MI, MO, PA and TN.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- REF #367986, Lot #'s 5133957 and 5133959
- 510(k) numbers
- ["BK050036"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- JKA
- Firm FEI
- 2243072
- Firm city
- Franklin Lakes
- Firm state
- NJ
- 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
- Source file retained · verify
- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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