On (b)(6) 2022, a customer from netherlands notified biomérieux of mycobacterium genus contamination of nuclisens® magnetic silica 384t (ref.280133, lot number z013ae1ms, expiration date: 28 jan 2023) leading to a false result when testing patient sample.The customer reported contamination in the extraction negative control during mycobacterium genus testing.The negative control samples used to check the extraction are presenting positive signal.This issue impacted patients and wrong results were reported to physician (the results were not specified).At the time of this assessment, there is no information regarding any adverse event related to any patient's state of health.A biomérieux internal investigation has been initiated.
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An investigation was performed following notification from a customer in netherlands of mycobacterium genus contamination of nuclisens® magnetic silica 384t (ref.280133, lot number z013ae1ms, expiration date: 28 jan 2023.The investigation confirmed that this lot was not contaminated.A contamination issue was confirmed with specific lots of nuclisens magnetic silica, for which fsca 5690 was issued.However, the silica lot involved in this instance, z013ae1ms, is not part of the listed impacted lots in fsca 5690.Testing was done on retained kits from the manufacturing site and also on raw material for batches currently released on the field at that time.The investigation demonstrated that the contamination comes from silica raw material from a supplier.The silica raw material produced internally are not impacted by the issue.List of incriminated lots: z012me1ms, z012mf1ms, z012mh1ms, z012mk1ms, z012ml1ms, z012mg1ms, z012ne1ms, z012nd1ms, z012nc1ms, z012nb1ms, z013af1ms, z013ag1ms, z013ah1ms, z013ak1ms, z013al1ms).All other batches have been tested by the investigation r&d team.These lots, including the lot involved in this complaint, were conforming and not concerned by the contamination issue.In addition, no more contamination has been observed using these other silica batches by some complaint customers on incriminated batches.Some customers may have observed contamination with these uncontaminated silica lots due to: - a difference of sensitivity in the pcr test compared to tests done by investigation r&d team.- a residual environmental contamination in customer lab.- or possibly the use of pooled batches within contaminated ones.(pooling is not part of good practices).For these customers, the recommendation is to discard all opened reagents, (ic, silica.), to perform a decontamination of the lab and to run contamination/blank tests after.
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