ADVIA Centaur Prolactin Assay: ADVIA Centaur Calibrator B
Medical device recall Z-2409-2012. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Sep 26, 2012.
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Sep 26, 2012. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class III FDA’s class
- Terminated its status, in FDA’s file
- Nationwide FDA’s word for where it went
- 15, 455 kits 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 III, the least serious of FDA’s three classes.
“Products that are unlikely to cause any adverse health reaction, but that violate FDA labeling or manufacturing laws. Examples include: a minor container defect and lack of English labeling in a retail food.”
openFDA, in plain words, its enforcement report fields.
“Class III is a situation in which use of, or exposure to, a violative product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences.”
FDA’s rule, 21 CFR 7.3(m)(3), eCFR.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
ADVIA Centaur Prolactin Assay and FSH, Calibrator B fails the analytical sensitivity stated in the IFU for lots below 40
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
ADVIA Centaur Prolactin Assay: ADVIA Centaur Calibrator B Catalog Number. Prolactin:110757 and 110758: US:Calibrator B 00652707 (6 pack) or 00649625 (2 pack ) OUS: 2 pack REF: 00650577 and Ref: 00654130 (6 pack) Product Usage: ADVIA Centaur CP Prolactin assay: For in vitro diagnostic use in the quantitative determination of prolactin in serum using the ADVIA Centaur System. ADVIA Centaur Calibrator B: For in vitro diagnostic use in calibrating the following assays using ADVIA Centaur¿ Systems: Digoxin, FSH, TotallgE, LH, LH2, Prolactin, Total hCG, and TSH
15, 455 kits, in FDA’s words.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
US: 2 Pack Ref: 00649625: Lot Numbers/Exp Date: Dec 2, 2012: 78813A30 79982A30 81013A30 82021B30 82767B30 83453C30 85447D30 87319A40 Exp Date:April 9, 2013 85598A40 85708A40 86098A40 87319A40 87979B40 88809B40 89351C40 91750C40 (6 pack)…
Every code shown here, 676 characters
US: 2 Pack Ref: 00649625: Lot Numbers/Exp Date: Dec 2, 2012: 78813A30 79982A30 81013A30 82021B30 82767B30 83453C30 85447D30 87319A40 Exp Date:April 9, 2013 85598A40 85708A40 86098A40 87319A40 87979B40 88809B40 89351C40 91750C40 (6 pack) Ref. 00652707: Lot Numbers/Exp Date: Dec 2 2012 79354A30 80802A30 81892B30 82815B30 83741D30 84186A40 Exp. Date April, 8, 2013 85599A40 86191A40 88102B40 89717C40 91383C40 (6 Pack) Ref: 00654254 79714A30 Exp Date Dec 2, 2012 82370A30 84274A30 85512E30 OUS: 2 pack REF: 00650577 78319A29 Exp Dec 2, 2102 78487A29 79024A29 79403A29 79770B29 79981B29 82935B29 85735C29 00654130 Ref: 00654130 (6 pack) 78321A29 Exp Dec 2,2102 79197A29 83314C29
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 and the countries of: Canada, Argentina, Australia, Bangaldesh,Brazil, Chile, China, Columbia, Croatia, Ecuduar, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Israel,Japan, Korea, Maylasia, New Zealand, Mexico, Peru, Philipines, Pakistan, Saudia Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Viet Nam, South Africa and UK.
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.
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 Aug 7, 2012.
- FDA classified it on Sep 20, 2012.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on Sep 26, 2012.
- FDA terminated it on Feb 26, 2014.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc, of East Walpole, MA.
- 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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