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FDAFDA · Food and drugs·Recall number Z-2141-2014

VITROS 5600 Integrated System --- For use in the in vitro quantitative, semi-quantitative, and qualitative measurement of a variety of analytes of clinical interest, using VITROS Chemistry Products Slides, VITROS Chemistry Products MicroTip Reagents and VITROS Immunodiagnostic Products Reagents. The VITROS Software is a part of the VITROS 3600, 4600, & 5600 Systems. The VITROS 3600, 4600, & 5600 Systems share the same software base. VITROS Sample Programming consists of Sample Identification (SID), test requests, and patient demographics. Patient demographics include patient name, address, date of birth, gender, physician, and patient identification (PID).

Published August 13, 2014 · Recall initiated: July 7, 2014

Status when published: Terminated — openFDA updates weekly, so this field may not reflect the current status. Always confirm with the official notice.

What's the hazard

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics has identified an anomaly with VITROS System Software Version 3.0 and below. Internal testing confirmed that under very specific conditions, incorrect patient demographics were associated with a sample identification (ID) number.

What to do

Voluntary: Firm initiated · Letter

Recall details

Manufacturer
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
Distributor
Worldwide Distribution-USA (nationwide) including Puerto Rico and the countries of Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Singapore, Spain and Venezuela.
Lot
Serial Numbers J56000110 - J56001954 (J Numbers are analogous to Serial Numbers, for VITROS 5600 systems the J Numbers start with 5600XXXX)
Risk classification
Class II
Area (FDA)
device
Country
United States

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