Events

Field Safety Notices about Affinis Fracture, Inverse, and Short implants with Ti/CaP coating

According to Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices of the Republic of Slovenia (via FOI), this field safety notices involved a device in Slovenia that was produced by Mathys Ltd Bettlach.

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Field safety notices are communications sent out by medical device manufacturers or their representatives in relation to actions that they may be taking in relation to their product that is on the market. These are mainly for health workers, but also for users. They can include recalls and alerts.

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  • Type of Event
    Field Safety Notice
  • Date
    2016-05-31
  • Event Country
    Slovenia
  • Event Source
    AMPMDRS
  • Notes / Alerts
    Data from Slovenia is current through February 2019. All of the data comes from the Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices of the Republic of Slovenia (via FOI), 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 Slovenia.
  • Extra notes in the data
  • Reason
    Mathys ltd bettlach has detected an inconsistency in the shelf-life of implants coated with titanium/calcium phosphate (ti/cap). as a preventive measure, the shelf-life of the ti/cap coated implants has been reduced from previously ten years to a new shelf-life of five years. for this reason, all the stocks of affected implants have been relabelled accordingly. .

Device

Affinis Fracture, Inverse, and Short implants with Ti/CaP coating

Manufacturer

Mathys Ltd Bettlach