FDA Recalls & Safety Alerts - The Conscious Plate

VITEK 2 Gram-negative Susceptibility Cards Containing o Polymyxin B (pb02n) o Ceftazidime/avibactam (cza02n) o Meropenem/Vaborbactam (mev01n) o Imipenem (ipm05n) o Imipenem/Relebactam (ipr01n); CARD NAME/ PRODUCT REFERENCE: AST-N399 423701 AST-N402 423644 AST-N403 423645 AST-N404 423664 AST-N405 423864 AST-N406 423869 AST-N407 423870 AST-N409 423925 AST-N412 423936 AST-N413 423928 AST-N414 423933 AST-N415 423934 AST-N416 423935 AST-N417 423880 AST-N419 423948 AST-N421 424055 AST-N428 424320 AST-N429 424321 AST-N430 424322 AST-N433 424389 AST-N439 424501 AST-N440 424502 AST-N443 424541 AST-N444 424587 AST-N467 424857 AST-N476 424934 AST-N478 425052 AST-N480 425084 AST-N481 425085 AST-N485 425182 AST-N496 425265 AST-N800 423310 AST-N802 423706 AST-N804 424634 AST-N808 424711 AST-N810 424712 AST-N811 424713 AST-N813 424722 AST-N815 425054 AST-XN09 423425 AST-XN15 423829 AST-XN17 423673 AST-XN18 423874 AST-XN20 423947 AST-XN21 424197 AST-XN22 424199 AST-XN23 424198 AST-XN24 424351 AST-XN26 424500 AST-XN28 424586 AST-XN29 424604 AST-XN30 424639 AST-XN31 424640 AST-XN32 424678 AST-XN33 424723 AST-XN34 424752 AST-XN35 424810 AST-XN36 424860 AST-XN37 424888 AST-XN38 425074 AST-XN39 425086 AST-XN40 425095 AST-XN41 425204 AST-XN42 425309 Update 4/2/26 -- Additional product references not manufactured at time of initial notification. These products will not be distributed within the United States. AST-N484 Ref. 425181 AST-N486 Ref. 425183 AST-N491 Ref. 425206 AST-N494 Ref. 425224 AST-N485 Ref. 425182 AST-XN41 Ref. 425204 AST-XN42 Ref. 425309 AST-N504 Ref. 425491 Class II

Reason: Potential risk of Quality Control failures and/or false resistant antibiotic results when testing isolates of Enterobacterales/Enterobacteriaceae species and/or Pseudomonas aeruginosa with the identified antibiotic formulations. Issue may lead to QC failure or false resistant results.

Biomerieux Inc 20260105 Ongoing

Distributed: Worldwide - US Nationwide distribution.

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CellMek SPS Sample Preparation System, REF: C44603, with software Class II

Reason: Sample preparation system designed to automate staining, lysing, cell washing has a software error that causes samples to be dispensed close to or touching tube bottoms, which could dislodge fluid line, result in sample loss, spillage, make instrument inoperable and will lead to unintentional removal of 60-100 microliters from final sample, may lead to incorrect diagnosis or patient management.

Beckman Coulter, Inc. 20251223 Ongoing

Distributed: Worldwide - US Nationwide distribution in the states of MO, WA, MA, IL, AL, OR, IL and the countries of AB, BE, ES, FR, NL, ON, DE, AT, VIC, AU, GB, SK, MX, CH.

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EMPOWR Acetabular System: Liner, 10 degree Hooded, HXe+, 36H, REF: 942-01-36H; Liner, 10 degree Hooded, HXe+, 36J, REF: 942-01-36J; Liner, 10 degree Hooded, HXe+, 40G, REF: 942-01-40G; Liner, 10 degree Hooded, HXe+, 32C, REF: 942-01-32C Class II

Reason: 942-01-40G acetabular system package was found to contain 942-01-36H acetabular system; and several other acetabular system and knee insert devices may also have a packaging discrepancy, which may cause surgical delay to exchange devices or revision surgery.

Encore Medical, LP 20260105 Ongoing

Distributed: US: TX, IA, MI, MS, MA, RI, NJ, PA, NY, MO, OK, PR, AL, CA

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EMPOWR 3D Knee Tibial Insert 5R 14MM, VE, REF: 342-14-705 Class II

Encore Medical, LP 20260105 Ongoing

Distributed: US: TX, IA, MI, MS, MA, RI, NJ, PA, NY, MO, OK, PR, AL, CA

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Brand Name: Da Vinci Product Name: da Vinci X, Xi Surgical System, & da Vinci 5 Surgical System Model/Catalog Number: IS4000; IS4200; IS5000 Software Version: N/A Product Description: The da Vinci Xi, X, and da Vinci 5 surgical systems each consist of three main components: the Surgeon Console (SC), the Vision Cart (VC), and the Patient Cart (PC). The PC is the operative component of the system, and its primary function is to support the instrument arms and camera arm. Each system have four Universal Surgical Manipulators (USMs) also known as arms, which allow the surgeon to control up to three instruments and an endoscope simultaneously to perform surgical tasks (e.g. cutting, suturing, tissue approximation) in a variety of procedures. As the surgeon moves the hand controls within the console, the PC moves the robotic instruments within the patient in a corresponding manner. The da Vinci system and its software are designed such that instruments motion precisely tracks the motion inputs from the hand controls during surgery. Component: The affected part based on this recall, 380647-xx, USM, is a sub component of da Vinci Surgical Instrument Class II

Reason: Due to a software implementation error that allowed instruments arms failing an important diagnostic test to remain in clinical use. This test was supposed to be used to detect Universal Surgical Manipulator insertion axis ball screws that exhibit the symptoms of being bent and misaligned which is a precursor to potential ball screw fatigue failure/fraction

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. 20251107 Ongoing

Distributed: U.S.: AL, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, MI, MN, MS, MO, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI. O.U.S.: Austria, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan and United Kingdom

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