Events

Recall of Absorbable ABSOLOK PLUS clips

According to L’Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM), this recall involved a device in France that was produced by ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. (USA) .

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
  • Date
    2005-03-07
  • Event Country
    France
  • Event Source
    ANSM
  • Event Source URL
    https://ansm.sante.fr/S-informer/Informations-de-securite-Retraits-de-lots-et-de-produits/retrait-de-lots-de-clips-resorbables-absolok-plus-de-la-societe-ethicon-endo-surgery-inc
  • Notes / Alerts
    French data is current through early September 2018. All of the data comes from L’Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM), 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 France.
  • Extra notes in the data
  • Action
    ETHICON SAS is recalling lots (07/03/2005) (23 ko) of the medical device Absorbable ABSOLOK PLUS clips AP100, AP200, AP300 and AP400 references manufactured by ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. (USA) following the presence of tear (s) on the packaging likely to cause problems of loss of sterility clips .. The same medical devices produced by ETHICON GmbH (Germany) are not affected by this recall .. The manufacturer has directly notified the recipients of the offending lots by means of the enclosed message (07/03/2005) (311 KB). The relevant European Competent Authorities are informed directly by the manufacturer.

Device

Absorbable ABSOLOK PLUS clips

Manufacturer

ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. (USA)
  • Source
    LAANSM