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Field Safety Notices about cobas b 221

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 Roche.

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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
    2015-06-12
  • 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
    When an affected s3 or s2 fluid pack is inserted to the cobas b 221 instrument, it will display an error message “transponder error”. the instrument cannot start measurements until any affected fluid pack is replaced with an unaffected one.

Device

cobas b 221
  • Model / Serial
    Lot 21451587, and Lot 21450781, 21450887 and 21451391
  • Manufacturer
    Roche

Manufacturer

Roche