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Health product recall

Abbott Realtime High Risk HPV (2014-01-09)

Starting date:
January 9, 2014
Posting date:
February 11, 2014
Type of communication:
Medical Device Recall
Subcategory:
Medical Device
Hazard classification:
Type II
Source of recall:
Health Canada
Issue:
Medical Devices
Audience:
General Public, Healthcare Professionals, Hospitals
Identification number:
RA-37907

Recalled products

  1. Abbott Realtime High Risk HPV 

Reason

A customer complaint identified a false positive sample result from a run of the Realtime High Risk HPV assay on the M2000RT instrument. Excess instrument noise was present in the reference signals. However no error codes related to excessive noise were generated for any samples in the run.

Affected products

A. Abbott Realtime High Risk HPV 

Lot or serial number

All lots 

Model or catalog number
  • 04N05-01
  • 2N09-91
Companies
Manufacturer
Abbott GmbH and Co. K.G.
Max Planck Ring 2
Wiesbaden
65205
GERMANY