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Recall of Philips Advia Chemistry XPT System

According to New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, this recall involved a device in New Zealand that was produced by Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.

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
    20430
  • Event Initiated Date
    2016-07-25
  • 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: Siemens Healthcare (NZ) Ltd, Millennium Centre, Part Level 2, Building A, 600 Great South Road, Ellerslie, AUCKLAND 1051
  • Reason
    Siemens healthcare diagnostics has identified an issue with the ratio equation provided on the advia® chemistry xpt system software test definition (tdef) version 1.0 disks (smn: 11127343 and 11222123). this issue affects only the advia chemistry hemoglobin a1c_3 automated pretreatment (a1c_3) results when hba1c values are reported in international federation of clinical chemistry (ifcc) equivalent units (hba1cr).
  • Action
    Manufacturer to issue advice regarding use

Device

Philips Advia Chemistry XPT System
  • Model / Serial
    Model: Advia Chemistry XPT System, Affected: Material Number 10723034, Software version: Version 1.0 disks
  • Manufacturer
    Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc

Manufacturer

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc
  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
    Siemens AG
  • Source
    NZMMDSA