Single Use Aspiration Needle NA-U401SX recallZ-1616-2023 · Olympus Corporation of the Americas · initiated Mar 31, 2023
Open, Classified
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Why it was recalled
Product non-conformance pertaining to the angle of the needle does not meet manufacturing specifications and remained unbent, resulting to slight resistance experienced during needle advancement and retraction.
FDA root cause category: Employee error
What the company is doing
Olympus issued Urgent Medical Medical Device Recall letter on 3/31/23 to Endoscopy Department, Pulmonology Department; Risk Management. . Letter states reason for recall, health risk and action to take: 1. Immediately locate any affected products listed in this communication and quarantine these products. 2. Contact our Olympus Customer Service Team at 1-800-848-9024, option 2. Olympus will issue a Return Material Authorization to return any affected product at no charge to you. Olympus will issue a credit to your facility upon return of affected product. 3. Olympus requests that you acknowledge receipt of this letter through the Olympus recall portal. " Go to https://olympusamerica.com/recall and enter the recall number 0422 4. If you have distributed these devices outside your facility, please notify your customers of this matter immediately. Your notification to your customers may be enhanced by including a copy of this letter. Olympus requests that you report complaints, including patient injuries and adverse events, to Olympus. Please report complaints to our Technical Assistance Center (TAC) at 1-800-848-9024, option 1, to report complaints
Recall details
- Recall number
- Z-1616-2023
- Status
- Open, Classified
- Initiated by the company
- Mar 31, 2023
- Posted by the FDA
- May 19, 2023
- Recalling firm
- Olympus Corporation of the Americas
- Quantity
- 1297 (Boxes; 5 per Box)
- Product code
- FCG
- FDA submissions
- K160098
- Distribution
- Natiowide Foreign: Canada, Germany
Product description
To be used with ultrasound endoscopes for ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) of submucosal and extramural lesions of the tracheobronchial tree and the gastrointestinal tract Models: NA-U401SX-4022, NA-U401SX-4022-A
Code information (models, lots, serial numbers)
UDI: 04953170388286 Lot numbers: KR248740 KR248746 KR252863 KR253666 KR253681 KR260854 KR260865 KR260873 KR260875 KR260876 KR260877 KR260896 KR260917 KR260937
Devices named in this recall
1 device in the FDA device registry whose identifier appears in the recall's code information.
- Single Use Aspiration Needle NA-U401SX NA-U401SX-4022Olympus Medical Systems Corp. · Biopsy needle1 recall29 reports
Product lines
Other devices under the same FDA submission
4 devices cleared under K160098 are not named by identifier in this recall. One submission often covers many models, so they may or may not be affected.
- Single Use Aspiration Needle NA-U401SX NA-U401SX-4021Olympus Medical Systems Corp. · Biopsy needle1 recall94 reports
- Single Use Aspiration Needle NA-U401SX NA-U401SX-4021Olympus Medical Systems Corp. · Biopsy Needle51 reports
- Single Use Aspiration Needle NA-U401SX NA-U401SX-4022Olympus Medical Systems Corp. · Biopsy needle1 death32 reports
- Single Use Aspiration Needle NA-U401SX NA-U401SX-4022Olympus Medical Systems Corp. · Biopsy Needle21 reports
Other products in the same recall event
The FDA groups related products into one recall event (event 92129).
- Z-1615-2023 · Open, ClassifiedViziShot 2 Single Use Aspiration Needle, 21G- To be used with ultrasound endoscopes for ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) of submucosal and extramural lesions of the t…
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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