Events

Recall of Spot-light Tissue Pretreatment Kit

According to New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, this recall involved a device in New Zealand that was produced by Thermo Fisher Scientific Oy.

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
    20787
  • Event Initiated Date
    2016-11-01
  • 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: Life Technologies, 18-24 Botha Road, Penrose, AUCKLAND
  • Reason
    The enzyme digestion reagent (reagent 2) contains 1.3x the normal amount of enzyme (pepsin) leading to excessive pepsinization of cells. this may cause loss of tumour cell morphology and inadequate hybridization of fish/cish probes.
  • Action
    Product to be destroyed

Device

Spot-light Tissue Pretreatment Kit

Manufacturer

Thermo Fisher Scientific Oy