FDA Device

Roche/Hitachi brand lactate reagent for the quantitative determination of L-lactate in plasma, cerebrospinal fluid or whole blood. Catalog # 1822837.

Hazard

Patient samples with very high lactate values may falsely be reported as within the normal range without the instrument giving a warning flag to the technician.

What You Should Do

Remedy

Recall letters were sent to U.S. customers on 9/2/03 instructing them not to run lactate with these analyzers. An update notification letter was sent on or about 9/18/03 telling customers to discontinue use of the product for manual lactate determinations.

Products

Roche/Hitachi brand lactate reagent for the quantitative determination of L-lactate in plasma, cerebrospinal fluid or whole blood. Catalog # 1822837.
Brand
Roche Diagnostics Corp.
UPC
All lots of reagent when used manually or on the Roche/Hitachi 902, 911, 912, 917 or Modular Analytics P module analyzers.

Units Affected

21958