The Hulka Clip is a sterile packaged medical device that carries a two year expiration date. It is packaged two clips per procedural tray. Theses procedural trays are then sealed in a Tyvek/Mylar pouch and packaged in a cardboard shipping carton with ten pouches in each shipping carton.
Enforcement
- Recall Number
- Z-0037-2015
- Event ID
- 68777
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Product Type
- Devices
- Firm
- Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp.
- Voluntary / Mandated
- Voluntary: Firm initiated
- Initial Notification
- Letter
- Report Date
- October 15, 2014
- Initiation Date
- July 9, 2014
- Classification Date
- October 7, 2014
- Termination Date
- April 24, 2017
- Address
- 353 Corporate Woods Pkwy, Vernon Hills, IL, 60061-3110, United States
Description
The Hulka Clip is a sterile packaged medical device that carries a two year expiration date. It is packaged two clips per procedural tray. Theses procedural trays are then sealed in a Tyvek/Mylar pouch and packaged in a cardboard shipping carton with ten pouches in each shipping carton.
Richard Wolf Medical Instrument Corporation is recalling Hulka Clip Tubal Occluding Device lot 51000232. The devices are being recalled as a part of an investigation into a biocompatibility test discrepancy where the recalled lot (lot 51000232) passed final release testing, but the subsequent lot failed biocompatibility testing on a component that was also used to manufacture lot 51000232.
Product Code: 4986.09; Lot: 51000232
Worldwide distribution: US (Nationwide) including states of: (AK, AL, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, IN, KY, LA, MI, MO, MS, NC, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WV; and country of: Germany.
73 cartons (1,460 clips)