FDA Recall
Terminated
Clinitest hCG Cassette Pregnancy Test, Radio immunoassay for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) test system Product Number: 1760
Recall: Z-1475-2008
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Initiated October 17, 2007
Recall
- Recall Number
- Z-1475-2008
- Event Number
- 47352
- Firm
- Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics
- FEI Number
- 3002637618
- Product Code
- JHI
- Status
- Terminated
- Root Cause
- Employee error
- Initiated
- October 17, 2007
- Posted
- September 1, 2008
- Terminated
- March 15, 2012
- Address
- 2 Edgewater Dr, Norwood, MA, 02062-4637
Description
Clinitest hCG Cassette Pregnancy Test, Radio immunoassay for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) test system Product Number: 1760
Reason
False positive hCG results
Action
Siemens issued a Service Bulletin to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Branches via email on 10/17/007, and a customer bulletin to outside the US . Users are requested to discontinue use and discard the product. A Completion Notification was requested to be completed and returned by the faculties.
Distribution
Nationwide Canada, France, Korea, Netherlands, UK
Quantity
3065 kits