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Event 68437

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
May 23, 2014
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc

Dossier provenance

Source snapshots represented here

  • 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

Enforcement coverage uses report dates; product initiation dates can precede those bounds. Device-enrichment coverage uses FDA event_date_initiated.

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RAPIDPoint 500 Measurement Clinical Chemistry System RAPIDPoint 500 Measurement Cartridge Lactate (750 Tests) Part number: 10491449; RAPIDPoint 500 Measurement Cartridge Lactate (400 Tests) Part Number: 10491448 RAPIDPoint 500 Measurement Cartridge Lactate (250 Tests) Part Number: 10491447 RAPIDPoint 500 Measurement Cartridge Lactate (100 Tests) Part Number:10844813

Z-2079-2014
Recall number
Z-2079-2014
Initiated
May 23, 2014
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Quantity
20,507 cartridges

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
RAPIDPoint 500 Measurement Cartridges may have an error code one or more electrolyte parameters (e.g., Na+, Ca++, K+, Cl-)

These labels are deterministic app interpretations, not FDA categories.

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Reason for recall

RAPIDPoint 500 Measurement Cartridges may have an error code one or more electrolyte parameters (e.g., Na+, Ca++, K+, Cl-)

Code information

Serial Numbers: 2334500011 through 2412705915

Distribution pattern

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