Z-0385-04
Products are various dental surgical drills packed in a sealed tray and labeled as sterile. The tray is...
ZimVie US Corp LLC / initiated 2003-12-02 / Terminated / root cause: packaging
Implant Innovations, Inc. began a recall of Products are various dental surgical drills packed in a sealed tray and labeled as sterile. The tray is labled as follows: 3i Implant Innovations, Inc., 4555... on . The reason FDA records is "The tray lid seals may be open thereby compromising the sterility barriers for the recalled lots". As of , the recall status on record is Terminated, and MDM tags the root cause as packaging.
Recall record
- Recall number
- Z-0385-04
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- Posted
- Terminated
- Recalling firm
- ZimVie US Corp LLC
- Product
- Products are various dental surgical drills packed in a sealed tray and labeled as sterile. The tray is labled as follows: 3i Implant Innovations, Inc., 4555 Riverside Drive, Palm Beach 33410 USA 561-776-6700 DT220 2.3mm (D) x 20.0 mm (L) STERILE.
- Product code
- DZI Drill, Bone, Powered
- Reason for recall
- The tray lid seals may be open thereby compromising the sterility barriers for the recalled lots.
- Root cause tag
- packaging
- FDA root cause
- Other
- Action
- The firm notified international distributors on 12/2/2003 via e-mail and also a recall notification letter was faxed to them on 12/2/2003. They were instructed to subrecall to the health professional level. Also on 12/2/2003 all domestic accounts (health practioners) were telephoned and then faxed a recall notification letter. Each account was instructed to check their inventory, respond back by fax and to return recalled product to Implant Innovations Inc.
- Quantity in commerce
- 16
- Distribution
- Product was distributed to 45 Dentist/Surgeons nationwide in the US and also to 13 international Distributors in Canada, Sweden, Germany, Colombia, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Austria, France, Poland, England and Greece.
- Product codes and lots
- 219636
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