The Recall Desk

FDA (Devices) recall action 79701

Olympus Corporation of the Americas recalled 2 products on 2018-08-01

The FDA (Devices) publishes a recall like this one as 2 separate product records. They share a firm, a date and a cause; this page is all of them in one place, so the scale of the action is visible rather than spread across 2 pages.

Products
2
Announced
2018-08-01
Critical
0
Units
3,461

Why these products were recalled

Breakage of the endoscope's insertion tube bending section during surgical procedures.

The agency’s own wording, quoted from the enforcement report.

The unit total adds up the quantities the agency stated for each product. Where a product record gave no figure, or gave a weight rather than a count, it contributes nothing — so the real total is at least this, never less.

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