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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It was reported on october 2013 that the report-to-file function does not work properly and there is potential for sample id and test results to be mismatched. investigation of the issue by thermo fisher scientific revealed that the report-to-file function was not being used in canada at the time. the software on canadian analyzers was updated at the time of the reported incident.