VITROS recallZ-3280-2018 · Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics · initiated May 5, 2018
Terminated
Is my device affected?
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- If yours is listed, follow the instructions from Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics or your healthcare provider. The company's action is summarized under what the company is doing.
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Why it was recalled
Potential for positively biased results
FDA root cause category: Nonconforming Material/Component
What the company is doing
On 05 May 2018, Customer letter (Ref. CL2018-123) was sent via FedEx overnight courier and/ or ORTHO PLUS e-Communications and/ or US Postal Service Priority Mail (for PO Boxes only) to all VITROS customers, who have a analyzer capable of running VITROS Na+ slides, to inform them of the issue and to request that they immediately discontinue use of this VITROS Na+ Slides, GENs 8 and 13. Continued use of VITROS Na+ Slides, GENs14,16,17& 18 is acceptable provided the conditions detailed in the communication are met. Foreign affiliates were initially informed by email on 05 May 2018 of the issue and instructed to notify their consignees of the affected product with this issue and the requirement to immediately discontinue use of the VITROS Na+ slides GENs 8, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18. Due to the amount of time required to ship replacement product to some worldwide locations, a revised communication to the foreign affiliates occurred on 08 June 2018. Due to the health risk associated with potentially leaving the laboratory without a Na+ method, the revised letter instructs customers that they may continue to use GENs 14, 16, 17 and 18 until replacement product is received.
Recall details
- Recall number
- Z-3280-2018
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated by the company
- May 5, 2018
- Recalling firm
- Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
- Product code
- JGS
- FDA submissions
- K924471
- Distribution
- US Nationwide, Bermuda, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, China, India, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands
Product description
VITROS Sodium Slides, Catalog # 837 9034
Code information (models, lots, serial numbers)
UDI - 10758750004812 GENs- 8, 13, 14, 16, 17 & 18 Expiry Dates: 01-Nov-2018 through 01-Nov-2019
Devices named in this recall
1 device in the FDA device registry whose identifier appears in the recall's code information.
- VITROS 8379034Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. · ELECTRODE, ION SPECIFIC, SODIUM1 recall76 reports
Product lines
Sources and updates
- Recall record: FDA Medical Device Recalls, file dated Oct 16, 2026 · View the FDA recall notice ↗
- Devices: FDA GUDID, file dated Oct 13, 2026. Devices are linked when their identifier (with a valid check digit) appears in the recall's code information.
- Page last rebuilt: Oct 16, 2026. Text above is shown as published by the FDA.
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