M/L Taper with Kinectiv¿ Technology
Medical device recall Z-1699-2015. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Jun 17, 2015.
- FDA Class I
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Jun 17, 2015. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class I FDA’s most serious class (needs attention)
- Terminated its status, in FDA’s file
- Nationwide FDA’s word, and 23 states named
- 752 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 I, the most serious of FDA’s three classes.
“Dangerous or defective products that predictably could cause serious health problems or death. Examples include: food found to contain botulinum toxin, food with undeclared allergens, a label mix-up on a lifesaving drug, or a defective artificial heart valve.”
openFDA, in plain words, its enforcement report fields.
“Class I is a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.”
FDA’s rule, 21 CFR 7.3(m)(1), eCFR.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
Zimmer is initiating a voluntary recall of 64 lots (752 implants total) of M/L Taper with Kinectiv¿ femoral stems and modular necks due higher than allowed cytotoxicity levels found with the product. Reasonable probability of adverse biological response and subsequent revision
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
M/L Taper with Kinectiv¿ Technology. prosthesis, hip, semi-constrained (metal uncemented acetabular component) Product Usage: Usage: Total hip replacement for the following: severe hip pain and disability due to rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, traumatic arthritis, polyarthritis, collagen disorders, avascular necrosis of the femoral head, nonunion of previous fractures of the femur; congenital hip dysplasia, protrusio acetabuli, slipped capital femoral epiphysis; disability due to previous fusion; previously failed endoprostheses, and/or total hip components in the affected extremity and acute femoral neck fractures.
752, in FDA’s words.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
Product: 00771300500 Lots: 63006851 63006852 63024180 Product: 00771300600 Lots: 63024183 63024184 63024186 63024187 63024188 63024189 Product: 00771300700 Lots: 63024193 63024195 63024196 63024197 63024198 63024199 63024201 63024202…
Every code shown here, 843 characters
Product: 00771300500 Lots: 63006851 63006852 63024180 Product: 00771300600 Lots: 63024183 63024184 63024186 63024187 63024188 63024189 Product: 00771300700 Lots: 63024193 63024195 63024196 63024197 63024198 63024199 63024201 63024202 63024203 63024204 63024205 63024206 Product: 00771300900 Lots: 62927082 62927083 63024210 63024211 63024213 63024214 63024215 63024216 63024217 63024218 63024219 63024220 63024221 Product: 00771301000 Lots: 62938997 63024226 63024227 63024228 63024229 63024230 Product: 00771301100 Lots: 62885040 62905574 62998426 63024234 63024235 63024236 63024237 63024238 63024239 63024240 63024241 Product: 00771301200 Lots: 62927123 63024256 63024257 63024258 63024259 63024261 63024262 63024263 Product: 00771301300 Lots: 62885058 62939008 63024245 Product: 00784801400 Lot: 62924878 Product: 65771301100 Lot: 62939041
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.
Worldwide Distribution - US Nationwide in the states of AK, AL, AZ, CA, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, MA, MI, MN, MO, NC, NY, OH, OK, PA, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and countries of Canada, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy.
The states and territories these words name
23 states and territories.
Every one of them
- Alaska
- Alabama
- Arizona
- California
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- North Carolina
- New York
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Washington
- Wisconsin
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.
The words say it went outside the United States too.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
Is it still going on?
Terminated, in FDA’s file.
“FDA has determined that all reasonable efforts have been made to remove or correct the violative product in accordance with the recall strategy, and proper disposition has been made according to the degree of hazard.”
openFDA, on “Terminated”, 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 May 18, 2015.
- FDA classified it on Jun 8, 2015.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on Jun 17, 2015.
- FDA terminated it on Aug 2, 2016.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- Zimmer, Inc., of Warsaw, IN.
- Who began it, in FDA’s words: Voluntary: Firm initiated.
- How the firm first told its customers: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit.
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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