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The manufacturer of Statis SL handpieces has informed SciCan that the product may not function as expected if not properly maintained. When using the Statis handpieces, the lack of care or age-related wear and tear could result in the loosening parts…

Health Canada is advising about unauthorized health products that may pose serious health risks. The table is updated when Health Canada finds unauthorized health products that are promoted for sexual enhancement, weight loss, as a workout aid, as "…

Manufacturer initiated recall notifying users of variability of only the level 1 troponin I values included in the Mas CardioImmune XL controls (confirmed after 8 complaints). The level 1 control is included in lots of control kits CAI-XL 1, CAI-XL4…

Health Canada removed various unauthorized health products from sale from More to Shoppe, an online Facebook store, and seized them from its warehouse in Edson, Alberta. The products are labelled to contain prescription drugs and may pose serious health…

Presence of particulate matter in affected lot.

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. has confirmed through customer complaints the potential for functional sensitivity to not meet instructions for use (IFU) claims with the kit lots listed in table 1. Additionally, immulite thyroglobulin control module…

Sporadically, the distance measurement values displayed in MRI images on third-party postprocessing systems might be wrong if: - enhanced MRI images with rectangular FOV (field of view) are created at the MR scanner, and - in Syngo.via or MR view&…

In rare cases, the system may only boot into backup mode after an abrupt shutdown and not reach full operating mode. The full system functionality is not available. Only the backup mode is available, as mentioned in the operator manual. The Syngo start-…

During transversal table movement, it could happen that the rolling bearing which is part of the linear guide rail and enables the transversal table movement may get dislocated. The rolling bearing may fall out of the linear guide rail and thus the…

Results of post market surveillance revealed that under certain circumstances the room configuration parameters of the system are set to default values. If these values are larger than the actual room dimensions, a collision with the ceiling or wall…

Siemens Healthcare is informing customers with a preventive measure to exclude any potential risk of patient injury caused the footrest detaching from the patient table during an examination. Recall start date: December 15, 2022

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. has confirmed an issue through complaint investigation. The issue has the potential to affect the recovery of po2 in quality control (qc) at elevation with barometric pressures <730 mmhg on epoc sensor configuration…

Gas cylinders containing commercial grade oxygen instead of medical grade oxygen were delivered to homecare customers.

Emergent received 3 complaints from customers between 18 Oct 2022 - 15 Nov 2022 related to leaking packets. Product in leaking packets may not perform as effectively as intended.  Recall start date: November 24, 2022

Some electrode pads used with the hs1/onsite/home AED have been observed to experience gel separation from the foam/tin backing when peeled from the yellow plastic liner. The gel may fold onto itself, resulting in reduced surface area of gel on the pad.…