Exact FDA event identifier

Event 73885

2 recalled-product records grouped only because every row carries this exact official event ID.

Event summary

Timeline bucket: March 24, 2016
Product types: Device
Classifications: Class II
Statuses: Terminated
Recalling firm wording: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics 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

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

How coverage and grouping work

Complete imported group

Every recalled product in this event

2 official enforcement rows

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device · product 1 of 2

Dimension Vista 500 Intelligent Lab System running on software versions V.3.6.1 SP1 or V.3.6.2, Device listing # D011374, All serial numbers and lots are affected. The Dimension Vista System is an in vitro diagnostic device intended to duplicate manual analytical procedures such as pipetting, mixing, heating, and measuring spectral intensities to determine a variety of analytes in human body fluids. Dimension Vista chemical and immunochemical applications use photometric, turbidimetric, chemiluminescence, nephelometric and integrated ion-selective multisensor technology for clinical use

Z-1885-2016

Recall number: Z-1885-2016
Initiated: March 24, 2016
Classification: Class II
Status: Terminated
Recalling firm: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
Quantity: 1301 units

App-derived interpretation

Device software or design reason.device_software_design · v1.0.0

software defect

These labels are deterministic app interpretations, not FDA categories.

Official device-enrichment evidence · Sourced

Software design

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Reason for recall

Discrepant patient results on Dimension Vista Intelligent Lab Systems. Siemens Healthcare confirmed a software defect which, in a very specific set of circumstances, results in the Dimension Vista System omitting an aliquot probe rinse between sample aspirations when processing tubes in Sample Racks that are front loaded on the Dimension Vista System.

Code information

All serial numbers are affected.

Distribution pattern

Nationwide Distribution to AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, , ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY and Puerto Rico.

device · product 2 of 2

Dimension Vista 1500 Intelligent Lab System running on software versions V.3.6.1 SP1 or V.3.6.2, Device listing # D011374, All serial numbers and lots are affected. The Dimension Vista System is an in vitro diagnostic device intended to duplicate manual analytical procedures such as pipetting, mixing, heating, and measuring spectral intensities to determine a variety of analytes in human body fluids. Dimension Vista chemical and immunochemical applications use photometric, turbidimetric, chemiluminescence, nephelometric and integrated ion-selective multisensor technology for clinical use

Z-1886-2016

Recall number: Z-1886-2016
Initiated: March 24, 2016
Classification: Class II
Status: Terminated
Recalling firm: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
Quantity: 1300