Events

Safety Alert for Ichem Velocity Urine Chemistry test strips

According to National Institute of Drugs and Food Surveillance (INVIMA), this safety alert involved a device in Colombia that was produced by IRIS DIAGNOSTIC DIVISION || Importer: ROCHEM BIOCARE COLOMBIA.

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Alerts provide important information and recommendations about products. Even though an alert has been issued, it does not necessarily mean a product is considered to be unsafe. Safety Alerts, addressed to health workers and users, may include recalls. They can be written by manufacturers, but also by health officials.

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  • Type of Event
    Safety alert
  • Event ID
    RRD-011215
  • Event Number
    INVIMA 2009RD-0001277
  • Date
    2015-12-02
  • Event Country
    Colombia
  • Event Source
    INVIMA
  • Event Source URL
    https://app.invima.gov.co/alertas/dispositivos-medicos-invima?page=165
  • Notes / Alerts
    Colombian data is current through June 2019. All of the data comes from the National Institute of Drugs and Food Surveillance (INVIMA), 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 Colombia.
  • Extra notes in the data
  • Reason
    Manufacturing defect in the lot number, where several strips with multiple missing pads were found inside the bottle, the use of the strips affected to analyze patient samples can cause faults in the quality control, false negative results for one or several analytes, as well as the ph.

Device

Ichem Velocity Urine Chemistry test strips

Manufacturer

IRIS DIAGNOSTIC DIVISION || Importer: ROCHEM BIOCARE COLOMBIA