Pentax Medical Video Processor- Intended to be used with PENTAX Medical endoscopes, monitors and other…
Medical device recall Z-1238-2025. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Mar 5, 2025.
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Mar 5, 2025. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class II FDA’s class
- Ongoing its status, in FDA’s file
- Nationwide FDA’s word for where it went
- 94 units how much, in FDA’s words
Every line below is in FDA’s own words, with its source beside it. FDA’s terms are explained in FDA’s own words.
How serious is it, by FDA’s class?
Class II, the middle of FDA’s three classes.
“Products that might cause a temporary health problem, or pose only a slight threat of a serious nature. Example: a drug that is under-strength but that is not used to treat life-threatening situations.”
openFDA, in plain words, its enforcement report fields.
“Class II is a situation in which use of, or exposure to, a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”
FDA’s rule, 21 CFR 7.3(m)(2), eCFR.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
During endoscopic procedures using a combination of the video processor EPK-i8020c and the i20c series video endoscope, the observed image can become reddish or dark (1.8%). Users have observed smoke-like steam and noted that the light guide at the tip is hot during use / after the endoscope is removed from the patient, and may cause thermal injury to the patient’s mucous membranes.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
Pentax Medical Video Processor- Intended to be used with PENTAX Medical endoscopes, monitors and other peripheral devices for endoscopic diagnosis, treatment, and video observation. Model: EPK-i8020c
94 units, in FDA’s words.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
UDI: 04961333247974 Serial Numbers: B0023Z1193 B0023Z1195 B0023Z1245 B0023Z1247 B0023Z1250 B0023Z1255 B0023Z1256 B0023Z1276 B0023Z1277 B0023Z1279 B0023Z1280 B0023Z1286 B0023Z1290 B0023Z1296 B0023Z1313 B0023Z1335 B0023Z1451 B0023Z1461…
Every code shown here, 1,069 characters
UDI: 04961333247974 Serial Numbers: B0023Z1193 B0023Z1195 B0023Z1245 B0023Z1247 B0023Z1250 B0023Z1255 B0023Z1256 B0023Z1276 B0023Z1277 B0023Z1279 B0023Z1280 B0023Z1286 B0023Z1290 B0023Z1296 B0023Z1313 B0023Z1335 B0023Z1451 B0023Z1461 B0023Z1478 B0023Z1481 B0023Z1565 B0023Z1573 B0023Z1628 B0023Z1631 B0023Z1637 B0023Z1639 B0023Z1645 B0023Z1648 B0023Z1652 B0023Z1653 B0023Z1655 B0023Z1656 B0023Z1659 B0023Z1661 B0023Z1665 B0023Z1667 B0023Z1669 B0023Z1671 B0023Z1676 B0023Z1678 B0023Z1682 B0023Z1694 B0023Z1696 B0023Z1698 B0023Z1711 B0023Z1712 B0023Z1716 B0023Z1717 B0023Z1732 C0023Z0021 C0023Z0072 C0023Z0074 C0023Z0078 C0023Z0082 C0023Z0084 C0023Z0085 C0023Z0087 C0023Z0091 C0023Z0092 C0023Z0094 C0023Z0095 C0023Z0096 C0023Z0097 D0023Z0011 D0023Z0017 D0023Z0108 D0023Z0109 D0023Z0112 D0023Z0117 D0023Z0118 D0023Z0119 D0023Z0122 D0023Z0123 D0023Z0125 D0023Z0140 D0023Z0142 D0023Z0222 D0023Z0241 D0023Z0248 D0158Z0019 D0158Z0033 D0158Z0049 D0158Z0053 E0023Z0002 E0023Z0004 E0023Z0007 E0023Z0008 E0023Z0009 E0023Z0013 E0023Z0016 E0023Z0018 E0023Z0020 E0023Z0024 E0023Z0026
Copied exactly as FDA lists them: lot and serial numbers, dates and other codes on the product or its label.
Where did it go?
FDA’s words for the “general area of initial distribution”: where the firm first shipped it.
Nationwide
These words name no state.
What FDA means by nationwide
“The term “nationwide” is defined to mean the fifty states or a significant portion. Note that subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
openFDA, its enforcement report fields.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
Is it still going on?
Ongoing, in FDA’s file.
“A recall which is currently in progress.”
openFDA, on “On-Going”, its enforcement report fields.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
- The firm began the recall on Jan 29, 2025.
- FDA classified it on Feb 26, 2025.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on Mar 5, 2025.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- Pentax of America Inc, of Montvale, NJ.
- Who began it, in FDA’s words: Voluntary: Firm initiated.
- How the firm first told its customers: Letter.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
What this record can’t tell you
- Whether your own one is affected: compare the codes, dates and numbers above with yours. When unsure, ask the firm or the store.
- Where it went after the firm’s first shipments. FDA’s words cover the firm’s initial distribution, and, in FDA’s words, “subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
- How many have been returned, corrected or destroyed: FDA’s report doesn’t say.
- Whether anyone was hurt or fell ill: the report doesn’t say.
- How current it is: openFDA publishes FDA’s Enforcement Report weekly, after FDA does, and a firm can announce a recall weeks before it appears there. openFDA’s own caution: “This data should not be used as a method to collect data to issue alerts to the public, nor should it be used to track the lifecycle of a recall.”
- A product with no recall here isn’t safe by that: FDA’s report lists the recalls FDA classified, and when.
Hearth Record wrote these lines; the quotations are FDA’s.
Sources
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Device recall enforcement reports.
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