FDA-Device2017-04-12Class II

BD Vacutainer Buffered Sodium Citrate: (9NC) Blood Collection Tubes, 4.5 mL, 13 x 75 mm, Mfd: Becton Dickinson and Company Product Usage: The BD Vacutainer Safety Coagulation tube is an evacuated blood collection Tube that provides means of collecting, transporting and processing blood in a closed tube. The buffered sodium citrate additive provides an anti-coagulated specimen that may be used for clinical laboratory coagulation assays and determinations.

Becton Dickinson & Company
Hazard

BD is initiating this product correction of multiple lots of BD Vacutainer Buffered Sodium Citrate: (9NC) Blood Collection Tube (13x75 mm x 4.5 mL). A limited number of tubes in these lots may exhibit stopper pullout from the tube as the user removes the needle from the stopper following specimen collection.

Sold states
Worldwide - US Nationwide Distribution
Affected count
13,064,500 tubes (non-expired)
Manufactured in
1 Becton Dr, N/A, Franklin Lakes, NJ, United States
Products
BD Vacutainer Buffered Sodium Citrate: (9NC) Blood Collection Tubes, 4.5 mL, 13 x 75 mm, Mfd: Becton Dickinson and Company Product Usage: The BD Vacutainer Safety Coagulation tube is an evacuated blood collection Tube that provides means of collecting, transporting and processing blood in a closed tube. The buffered sodium citrate additive provides an anti-coagulated specimen that may be used for clinical laboratory coagulation assays and determinations.

Official notice

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/index.cfm?Product=Z-1746-2017

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