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Event 62834

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
July 26, 2012
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Stryker Orthobiologics, Inc.

Dossier provenance

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  • openFDA Device Enforcement Report-date coverage June 20, 2012–July 08, 2026 Known gap: openFDA describes 2004-present coverage, but the current export has no report-date records in this interval.
  • openFDA Device Recall event_date_initiated coverage June 01, 1997–June 30, 2026

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Styker Orthobiologics Vita Plasma Separator, a component of Vitagel Surgical Hemostat. Sterile, single use device designed to prepare plasma from the patient's blood using a tabletop centrifuge.

Z-0431-2013
Recall number
Z-0431-2013
Initiated
July 26, 2012
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Quantity
3,268

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
When preparing plasma using VitaPrep, it was reported that a small amount of blood collected in the bottom of the centrifuge cup following the centrifugation step. Firm has since discovered that if blood is present in the Luer connection of the VitaPrep following the blood draw step, this blood could be displaced to the outside of the syringe when the VitaPrep cap is reattached to the syringe. T

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Reason for recall

When preparing plasma using VitaPrep, it was reported that a small amount of blood collected in the bottom of the centrifuge cup following the centrifugation step. Firm has since discovered that if blood is present in the Luer connection of the VitaPrep following the blood draw step, this blood could be displaced to the outside of the syringe when the VitaPrep cap is reattached to the syringe. T

Code information

Part number 2113-0013, lot numbers T1203002, T1204005, and T1206001.

Distribution pattern

Nationwide Distribution-including the states of AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, and WV

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