Medical Action Industries blood culture kits recalled for compromised sterile packaging
What this means
Blood culture collection kits made by Medical Action Industries contain BD ChloraPrep applicators with potentially open or incomplete seals on their packaging. This compromised seal may allow contamination, and use of affected applicators could result in localized skin or soft tissue infection.
- Check if you have affected kits: REF 77451, 81834B, or 81834C with lot numbers listed in the recall notice.
- Do not use affected kits for blood culture collection.
- Contact Medical Action Industries or your supplier for replacement or return instructions.
The agency's original wording
Blood culture convenience kits contain a component subject to a drug recall that due to an an open or incomplete seal on the packaging of the applicator may compromise the component's sterile barrier and if used may lead to localized skin or soft tissue infection.
Official notice
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/index.cfm?Product=Z-3181-2026More Medical Action Industries recalls
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