FDA Enforcement Class II Terminated

BD Vacutainer Buffered Sodium Citrate: (9NC) Blood Collection Tube (4.5 ml x 13 x 75 mm) Catalog Number: 369714 Product Usage: The BD Vacutainer Safety Coagulation tube is an evacuated blood collection tube that provides means of collecting, transporting and processing blood in a closed tube. The buffered sodium citrate additive provides an anti-coagulated specimen that may be used for clinical laboratory coagulation assays and determinations

Recall: Z-1189-2017 · Reported February 22, 2017

Enforcement

Recall Number
Z-1189-2017
Event ID
76295
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Product Type
Devices
Firm
Becton Dickinson & Company
Voluntary / Mandated
Voluntary: Firm initiated
Initial Notification
Letter
Report Date
February 22, 2017
Initiation Date
January 16, 2017
Classification Date
February 10, 2017
Termination Date
February 7, 2018
Address
1 Becton Dr, N/A, Franklin Lakes, NJ, 07417-1815, United States

Description

BD Vacutainer Buffered Sodium Citrate: (9NC) Blood Collection Tube (4.5 ml x 13 x 75 mm) Catalog Number: 369714 Product Usage: The BD Vacutainer Safety Coagulation tube is an evacuated blood collection tube that provides means of collecting, transporting and processing blood in a closed tube. The buffered sodium citrate additive provides an anti-coagulated specimen that may be used for clinical laboratory coagulation assays and determinations

Reason

A portion of this lot of blood collection tubes was manufactured with approximately twice the expected amount of buffered sodium citrate additive, an anticoagulant.

Code Info

Lot 6090572

Distribution

Worldwide Distribution - US Nationwide and the countries of Canada, Mexico, Indonesia

Quantity

1,488,800 tubes