VITROS® 5,1 FS Refurbished System, Product Codes: 6801375 & 6801890 Product Usage: 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.
FDA Recall Z-1472-2012 · Posted 2012-04-26
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Recalling FirmOrtho-Clinical Diagnostics
Recall StatusTerminated
Product CodeJJE
Date Initiated2012-03-15
Date Terminated2017-09-20
Product Quantity25
Reason for Recall
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics is recalling VITROS Chemistry Systems due to possible internal hard drive failure.
Firm Action
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) sent an Important Product Correction Notification letter dated March 15, 2012 via FedEx overnight courier to all affected customers. Foreign affiliates were informed by email on 15 March 2012 of the issue and instructed to notify their consignees of the issue and actions. The letter identified the affected products, problem and actions to be taken. The letter instructed customers to: 1) Consider performing the backup procedure more frequently to help prevent the loss of data on your system; 2) Contact OCD Customer Technical Service representatives if a hard drive failure occurs on your system; A Field Engineer will be dispatched to replace the hard drive on your system; 3) Complete and return the Confirmation of Receipt form upon receipt of this notification; and 4) Post this notification by each VITROS System in your facility or with the user documentation. For questions, refer to the Questions and Answers section. For additional questions, contact Customer Technical Services at 1-800-421-3311.
Root Cause
Nonconforming Material/Component
Distribution Pattern
Worldwide Distribution
Related FDA 510(k) Records
Devices referenced by this recall via K-numbers.
Official Source
View FDA Recall →Source: FDA Enforcement Report / Recall database. Always confirm against the official FDA record.
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