A complaint was received on 11/7/2022 reporting raytecs have fallen apart in 2 packs.The blue radio detecting strips are falling out of the raytecs and inside patients.The blue strips are not woven into the white raytec like normal.A sample of the gauze was provided to deroyal for evaluation and a picture of the gauze was supplied to meixin medical.A supplier corrective action request (scar) was issued to the gauze supplier meixin medical.The following root cause was determined by the supplier meixin medical: the picture shows that the blue xr filament is falling out from the gauze in whole.There is no debris of yarn attached to the xr filament, which indicates that the xr filament is not adhering to the gauze solidly enough.The xr filament will be heated, softened, and then pressed on to the gauze.Key factors that will affect the solidity of the adhering are the temperature and the pressure.The manufacture record of the complaint lot was reviewed, and it was found that the heating system of the folding machine malfunctioned once during production.Employees failed to remove the nonconforming products.There was no inventory or work in process on hand to evaluate.The following corrective and preventive actions have been taken by meixin medical: the folding machine shall be checked and maintained regularly as required.The folding machine shall be stopped and repaired immediately if any abnormalities or malfunctions occur.The products produced before and after the malfunction shall be isolated and inspected retroactively to avoid nonconforming products.The employees were retrained on how to properly identify nonconforming products.Production records were reviewed, and no issues were found.An inventory check of the gauze was made by deroyal, a total of (b)(4) of the 5-19928 gauze was inspected, and no discrepancies were identified during the inspection.This investigation is complete at this time.No further information is available at this time.We will provide follow-up report if additional information becomes available.
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