Canadian data is current through March 2018. All of the data comes from Health Canada, except for the categories Manufacturer Parent Company and Product Classification.
The Parent Company and the Product Classification were added by ICIJ.
The parent company information is based on 2017 public records. The device classification information comes from FDA’s Product Classification by Review Panel, based on matches of recall data from the U.S. and Canada.
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Medtronics has informed alcon that a recall is being conducted due to possible contamination with human blood caused by handling of the covidien vistectm x-ray detectable sponges during the manufacturing process and prior to final packaging and ethylene oxide sterilization. alcon used sponges from one of the affected lots to build custom paks.