The investigation determined that a discordant, non-reproducible, false reactive vitros anti-sars cov 2 total (cov2tot) result was obtained when a vitros cov2tot level 1 lot 0530 non-reactive qc fluid was processed on a vitros eci immunodiagnostic system.Vitros cov2tot lot 0530 l1 qc fluid result of 2.09 s/c (reactive) versus the expected result of non-reactive.Biased results of the magnitude and direction observed may lead to inappropriate physician action if they were to occur undetected on patient samples.The vitros cov2tot result was obtained when a non-patient fluid was processed.Ortho has not been made aware of any allegation of patient harm as a result of this event.This report corresponds to ortho clinical diagnostics inc (ortho) nonconformance (b)(4).
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The investigation determined that a discordant, non-reproducible, false reactive vitros anti-sars cov 2 total (cov2tot) result was obtained when a vitros cov2tot level 1 lot 0530 non-reactive qc fluid was processed on a vitros eci immunodiagnostic system.A definitive cause of the event was not established.A vitros cov2tot lot 0620 reagent issue is an unlikely contributor to the event, as the remaining results from vitros cov2tot lot 0530 qc fluid testing was acceptable.Additionally, ongoing tracking and trending of complaints has not identified any signals that would point to a potential systemic issue with vitros cov2tot lot 0620.An instrument issue cannot be ruled out as a contributor to the event, as it was not known if the instrument was operating as expected at the time the discordant result was obtained as no performance testing was undertaken.Additionally, the false reactive result was isolated to one instrument and the results on the other vitros eci immunodiagnostic system were all acceptable.An issue with the vitros cov2tot lot 0530 l1 qc fluid is a possible contributor to the event as the vitros cov2tot lot 0530 qc fluid had expired (date of expiry 03 february 2022) prior to the date of the event ((b)(6) 2022).The qc fluid was tested as part of ortho post-expiry stability testing qc fluid mix up is an unlikely contributor to the event, as an expected result was obtained around the same time from the same tray/cup as the false reactive vitros cov2tot result of 2.09 s/c.(b)(4).
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