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Event 77049

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
April 13, 2017
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA 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

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device · product 1 of 1

Medtronic PAK NEEDLE BEVELED AND TROCAR TIPS, REF 8670009, QTY 1 EA, STERILE R, Rx only

Z-2047-2017
Recall number
Z-2047-2017
Initiated
April 13, 2017
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Quantity
36 units

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
Product packaging may incorrectly include two bevel-tipped needles or two trocar-tipped needles instead of one diamond-tipped needle and one bevel-tipped needle.

These labels are deterministic app interpretations, not FDA categories.

Official device-enrichment evidence · Unknown

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Reason for recall

Product packaging may incorrectly include two bevel-tipped needles or two trocar-tipped needles instead of one diamond-tipped needle and one bevel-tipped needle.

Code information

Lot number 0521148W, Exp. 10/21/2021

Distribution pattern

US Distribution to the state of : OK and to the countries of : Italy, Germany, France , Belgium, Spain and Japan.

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