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The account reported finding a defective safety needle, and cookeville clinical staff said the safety mechanism flops around when they are drawing up into the syringe.A sample was received; medline received a bag full of needles still sealed inside of its vendor packaging, observed no visual defects or damage to the component, performed functional testing, reviewed the pack's production record, and reviewed the finished good pack build.Functional testing of the component did exhibit the safety dropping; however, this did not affect use of the item and is the intended functionality, and the component was made to specification.Based on this, the root cause is considered customer preference, and the supplier quality team will monitor this issue for trending purposes.There were no reports of death, serious injury, medical intervention, or follow up care.It has been determined that the reported event could cause or contribute to serious injury if it were to occur again.In an abundance of caution, this is a reportable event.If additional information becomes available this report will be reopened and reevaluated.This medical device report (mdr) is being submitted as part of retrospective review activities, which include review of historical data in accordance with regulations at 21 cfr part 803.The information included in this mdr reflects the information reasonably known to the manufacturer at the time of this retrospective review and submission.
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