Events

Recall of Biomerieux FB Reagent

According to New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, this recall involved a device in New Zealand that was produced by Biomerieux SA.

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
    16417
  • Event Initiated Date
    2014-03-27
  • Event Country
    New Zealand
  • Event Source
    NZMMDSA
  • Event Source URL
    https://medsafe.govt.nz/hot/Recalls/RecallSearch.asp
  • Notes / Alerts
    Data from New Zealand is current through July 2018. All of the data comes from the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, 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 New Zealand.
  • Extra notes in the data
    Recalling Organisation: Medi'Ray New Zealand Ltd, 53-55 Paul Matthews Road, Albany, Auckland 0632
  • Reason
    During the quality control of new lot of fb reagent, a visual defect (colour issue) was observed. the first investigation performed by the manufacturing site showed that this visual defect is due to a specific lot of raw material used for the manufacturing of this fb reagent. in addition, this lot of raw material has also been used for the manufacturing of several lots of fb reagent and zym b reagent using the same raw material than the fb reagent. as the involved lots of zym b reagent are included inside of api nh and api listeria kits, the both references are also impacted.
  • Action
    Instructions for use to be updated

Device

Biomerieux FB Reagent
  • Model / Serial
    Model: Reference: 70562, Affected: All lots
  • Manufacturer
    Biomerieux SA

Manufacturer

Biomerieux SA