Quick Links: Skip to main page content Skip to Search Skip to Topics Menu Skip to Common Links
  • Decrease font size
  • Return font size to normal
  • Increase font size
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Class 2 Device Recall Depuy P.F.C. E Knee System

  • Print
  • Share
  • E-mail
-
Super Search Devices@FDA
510(k) | DeNovo | Registration & Listing | Adverse Events | Recalls | PMA | HDE | Classification | Standards
CFR Title 21 | Radiation-Emitting Products | X-Ray Assembler | Medsun Reports | CLIA | TPLC
 


New Search Back to Search Results
 Class 2 Device Recall Depuy P.F.C. E Knee Systemsee related information
Date Initiated by FirmSeptember 27, 2007
Date PostedDecember 06, 2007
Recall Status1 Terminated 3 on April 30, 2008
Recall NumberZ-0399-2008
Recall Event ID 44893
510(K)NumberK952830 
Product Classification Tibial Insert - Product Code NJL
ProductDepuy P.F.C. E Knee System TC3 Tibial Insert, 2.5, 30.0mm, 67mm M/L, 45 mm A/P, 30.0 mm, UHMWPE/Ti-6AI-4V, sterile; Product Code/REF 96-0527.
Code Information Lot 79272A.
Recalling Firm/
Manufacturer		 Depuy Orthopaedics, Inc.
700 Orthopaedic Dr
Warsaw IN 46582-3994
For Additional Information Contact
800-366-8143
Manufacturer Reason
for Recall		An incomplete seal on the inner pouch allows exposure to oxygen, which may result in oxidation and would affect long-term performance of the implant.
FDA Determined
Cause 2		Packaging process control
ActionConsignee hospitals and implanting physicians were notified of the recall via an Urgent Information-Recall Notice letter and Dear Doctor letters dated 9/27/07. The hospitals were instructed to determine whether they had any of the recalled products and to contact their sales representative to pick up the product. Depuy sales representatives were notified to collect the products from consignee hospitals via email on 10/1/07. The decision to discuss this product defect with patients who had already been implanted was left to the implanting physicians.
Quantity in Commerce12
DistributionNationwide.
Total Product Life CycleTPLC Device Report
1 A record in this database is created when a firm initiates a correction or removal action. The record is updated if the FDA identifies a violation and classifies the action as a recall, and it is updated for a final time when the recall is terminated. Learn more about medical device recalls.
2 Per FDA policy, recall cause determinations are subject to modification up to the point of termination of the recall.
3 For details about termination of a recall see Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 21 §7.55.
510(K) Database510(K)s with Product Code = NJL
-
-