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Event 75332

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
August 15, 2016
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Pentax of America 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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Pentax Video Gastroscope is intended to be used with a Pentax video processor (including light source), documentation equipment, monitor, EndoTherapy Device such as a Biopsy Forceps, and other ancillary equipment for endoscopy and endoscopic surgery within the upper digestive tract including the esophagus, stomach and duodenum.

Z-0318-2017
Recall number
Z-0318-2017
Initiated
August 15, 2016
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Recalling firm
Pentax of America Inc
Quantity
3,436 (US) and 14,488 (OUS)

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
PENTAX Medical is initiating this field action to provide customers that have purchased the affected endoscopes with the most recent Operation and Reprocessing IFUs.

These labels are deterministic app interpretations, not FDA categories.

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Reason for recall

PENTAX Medical is initiating this field action to provide customers that have purchased the affected endoscopes with the most recent Operation and Reprocessing IFUs.

Code information

EG-1690K, EG-2490K, EG-279oI, EG-2790K, EG-2990K, EG-2990K, EG-349oK and EG-3890TK

Distribution pattern

US Nationwide and Japan

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