Recall of Roche Cobas 4800 system

According to New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, this recall involved a device in New Zealand that was produced by manufacturer #1479.

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
    14412
  • Event Initiated Date
    2013-04-05
  • Event Country
  • Event Source
    NZMMDSA
  • Event Source URL
  • 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: Roche Diagnostics (NZ) Ltd, 15 Rakino Way, Mt Wellington, AUCKLAND 1644
  • Reason
    In rare instances, channel shifted results have been generated with cobas® 4800 assays run on version 1.1.X of the cobas® 4800 system. raw data review indicates that, in these cases, all signals are shifted by one channel:, * channel 1 results report as channel 2,, * channel 2 results report as channel 3,, * channel 3 results report as channel 4,, * channel 4 results report as channel 1., in the reported cases the results of the runs were invalid.
  • Action
    Software to be upgraded

Device

  • Model / Serial
    Model: , Affected: Software version V1.1.x
  • Manufacturer

Manufacturer