Recall of COBAS IT 1000 SOFTWARE

According to Health Canada (via FOI), this recall involved a device in Canada that was produced by ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS.

What is this?

A correction or removal action taken by a manufacturer to address a problem with a medical device. Recalls occur when a medical device is defective, when it could be a risk to health, or when it is both defective and a risk to health.

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  • Type of Event
    Recall
  • Event ID
    128490
  • Event Risk Class
    II
  • Event Initiated Date
    2013-01-31
  • Event Country
  • Event Source
    HC
  • Notes / Alerts
    Canadian data is current through March 2018. All of the data comes from Health Canada, except for the categories Manufacturer Parent Company and Product Classification.
    The Parent Company and the Product Classification were added by ICIJ.
    The parent company information is based on 2017 public records. The device classification information comes from FDA’s Product Classification by Review Panel, based on matches of recall data from the U.S. and Canada.
  • Extra notes in the data
  • Reason
    Under certain circumstances when patient birth date manually entered in a specific field of the cobas it 1000 version 2.00.0x and newer its application may save an earlier date instead. there could be critical risk associated to newborns and infant's wrong patient birth dates since a different assay validation range could be used.

Device

  • Model / Serial
    Model Catalog: 04481763001 (Lot serial: version 2.00.0X and onward)
  • Product Description
    COBAS IT 1000 SOFTWARE
  • Manufacturer

Manufacturer

  • Manufacturer Address
    LAVAL
  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
  • Source
    HC