FDA Recall Terminated

VITROS® 3600 Immunodiagnostic System Product Usage: For use in the in vitro quantitative, semi-quantitative, and qualitative measurement of a variety of analytes of clinical interest, using VITROS Immunodiagnostic Products Reagents.

Recall: Z-1468-2012 · Initiated March 15, 2012

Recall

Recall Number
Z-1468-2012
Event Number
61409
Firm
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
FEI Number
1000305841
Product Code
JJE
Status
Terminated
Root Cause
Nonconforming Material/Component
Initiated
March 15, 2012
Posted
April 26, 2012
Terminated
September 20, 2017
Address
1000 Lee Road, Rochester, NY, 14606

Description

VITROS® 3600 Immunodiagnostic System Product Usage: For use in the in vitro quantitative, semi-quantitative, and qualitative measurement of a variety of analytes of clinical interest, using VITROS Immunodiagnostic Products Reagents.

Reason

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics is recalling VITROS Chemistry Systems due to possible internal hard drive failure.

Action

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) sent an Important Product Correction Notification letter dated March 15, 2012 via FedEx overnight courier to all affected customers. Foreign affiliates were informed by email on 15 March 2012 of the issue and instructed to notify their consignees of the issue and actions. The letter identified the affected products, problem and actions to be taken. The letter instructed customers to: 1) Consider performing the backup procedure more frequently to help prevent the loss of data on your system; 2) Contact OCD Customer Technical Service representatives if a hard drive failure occurs on your system; A Field Engineer will be dispatched to replace the hard drive on your system; 3) Complete and return the Confirmation of Receipt form upon receipt of this notification; and 4) Post this notification by each VITROS System in your facility or with the user documentation. For questions, refer to the Questions and Answers section. For additional questions, contact Customer Technical Services at 1-800-421-3311.

Distribution

Worldwide Distribution

Quantity

173