Recall
enGen(TM) Laboratory Automation Systems configured with Hettich Rotanta 46 RSC Robotic Centrifuges, Catalog # enGen -- Common/Usual Name: enGen(TM) Track System, Hettich Centrifuge -- Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. Rochester, NY ---…
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics · 28 April 2011
- Status
- Recall terminated
- Why, in the FDA's words
- “Ortho Clinical Diagnostics received complaints of centrifuge buckets disconnecting from their supports during centrifugation when using the Hettich Rotanta 46 RSC Robotic Centrifuges, Models 4815, 4816 and 4817, that may be configured with enGen(TM) Laboratory Automation Systems.”
- Recall began
- 28 April 2011
- Company
- Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
- Device type
- Product code (JJE)
- Concerns
- K063144
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