smiths medical portex BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Trays with BLUselect tracheotomy tubes,…
Medical device recall Z-3087-2024. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Sep 18, 2024.
- FDA Class I
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Sep 18, 2024. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class I FDA’s most serious class (needs attention)
- Ongoing its status, in FDA’s file
- Not named no state, in where it went
- 12234 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 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?
There is the potential for a disconnection of the pilot balloon from the tracheostomy inflation line within specific lots of the BLUSelect, BLUgriggs and BLUperc products due to a manufacturing defect.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
smiths medical portex BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Trays with BLUselect tracheotomy tubes, labeled as follows: 1) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Tray with forceps and 8.0mm BLUselect trach tube (drugs, US ONLY), Item Number 101/540/080; 2) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Tray with forceps and 9.0mm BLUselect trach tube (drugs, US ONLY), Item Number 101/540/090; 3) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Kit with forceps and 7.0mm BLUselect trach tube, Item Number 101/541/070; 4) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Kit with forceps and 8.0mm BLUselect trach tube, Item Number 101/541/080; 5) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Kit with forceps and 9.0mm BLUselect trach tube, Item Number 101/541/090; 6) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Kit with 7.0mm BLUselect trach tube, no forceps, Item Number 101/543/070; 7) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Kit with 8.0mm BLUselect trach tube, no forceps, Item Number 101/543/080; 8) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Kit with 9.0mm BLUselect trach tube, no forceps, Item Number 101/543/090; 9) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Kit with forceps and 7.0mm BLUselect SuctionAid trach tube, Item Number 101/891/070; 10) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Kit with forceps and 8.0mm BLUselect SuctionAid trach tube, Item Number 101/891/080; 11) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Kit with forceps and 9.0mm BLUselect SuctionAid trach tube, Item Number 101/891/090; 12) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Tray with forceps and 7.0mm BLUselect SuctionAid trach tube (drugs, US ONLY), Item Number 101/892/070; 13) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Tray with forceps and 8.0mm BLUselect SuctionAid trach tube (drugs, US ONLY), Item Number 101/892/080; 14) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Tray with forceps and 9.0mm BLUselect SuctionAid trach tube (drugs, US ONLY), Item Number 101/892/090; 15) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Kit with 7.0mm BLUselect SuctionAid trach tube, no forceps, Item Number 101/893/070; 16) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Kit with 8.0mm BLUselect SuctionAid trach tube, no forceps, Item Number 101/893/080; 17) BLUgriggs Percutaneous Dilation Procedural Kit with 9.0mm BLUselect SuctionAid trach tube, no forceps, Item Number 101/893/090
12234 units, in FDA’s words.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
101/540/080, Lot Number 3943992; 101/540/080, Lot Number 4258998; 101/540/090, Lot Number 4309778; 101/541/070, Lot Number 3887542; 101/541/070, Lot Number 3913366; 101/541/070, Lot Number 4202486; 101/541/070, Lot Number 4350937;…
Every code shown here, 1,997 characters
101/540/080, Lot Number 3943992; 101/540/080, Lot Number 4258998; 101/540/090, Lot Number 4309778; 101/541/070, Lot Number 3887542; 101/541/070, Lot Number 3913366; 101/541/070, Lot Number 4202486; 101/541/070, Lot Number 4350937; 101/541/080, Lot Number 3887517; 101/541/080, Lot Number 3910324; 101/541/080, Lot Number 3912758; 101/541/080, Lot Number 4170885; 101/541/080, Lot Number 4184037; 101/541/080, Lot Number 4310310; 101/541/080, Lot Number 4312324; 101/541/080, Lot Number 4332049; 101/541/080, Lot Number 4332050; 101/541/090, Lot Number 3887526; 101/541/090, Lot Number 3925818; 101/541/090, Lot Number 4234865; 101/541/090, Lot Number 4266477; 101/541/090, Lot Number 4310313; 101/543/070, Lot Number 3887541; 101/543/070, Lot Number 4310304; 101/543/080, Lot Number 3887527; 101/543/080, Lot Number 3910325; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4310447; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4332051; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4332052; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4332053; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4332054; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4382017; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4382018; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4382019; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4382020; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4382021; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4382022; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4382023; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4382024; 101/543/080, Lot Number 4382025; 101/543/090, Lot Number 3887518; 101/543/090, Lot Number 4384983; 101/891/070, Lot Number 3910414; 101/891/070, Lot Number 3925816; 101/891/070, Lot Number 4117953; 101/891/070, Lot Number 4156869; 101/891/070, Lot Number 4205521; 101/891/070, Lot Number 4232678; 101/891/080, Lot Number 3887523; 101/891/080, Lot Number 3896997; 101/891/080, Lot Number 3896998; 101/891/080, Lot Number 4306752; 101/891/080, Lot Number 4388711; 101/891/090, Lot Number 3913655; 101/891/090, Lot Number 3925770; 101/891/090, Lot Number 4005342; 101/891/090, Lot Number 4310412; 101/892/070, Lot Number 3950087; 101/892/080, Lot Number 3943993; 101/892/080, Lot Number 4165114; 101/892/080, Lot Number 4226926; 101/892/090, Lot…
FDA’s list runs to 3,364 characters. The first part is shown; the rest is on FDA’s record.
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
These words name no state.
The words say it went outside the United States too.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
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 Jun 7, 2024.
- FDA classified it on Sep 11, 2024.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on Sep 18, 2024.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- Smiths Medical ASD Inc., of Minneapolis, MN.
- 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.”
- FDA’s list of codes runs to 3,364 characters; the first part is shown here, and the rest is on FDA’s record.
- 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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