Database updated: 27 October 2026
Safety Information
Medsafe Online Recall Database
Detail of Recall
| Type of Product: | Device |
| Medsafe Reference: | 19603 |
| Brand Name: | BD Vacutainer Heparin Tube |
| Model: | 367885 |
| Affected: | Lot No: 5084266 |
| Software version: | |
| Recalling Organisation: | Becton Dickinson Ltd Unit 4 / 110 Mays Road Onehunga Auckland 1061 |
| Contact Information: | 0800 572 468 |
| Manufacturer: | Becton Dickinson UK Ltd |
| Issue: | Manufacturer has received a customer complaint advising that have found tubes containing a white powder. One of these tubes had been used on a patient to measure troponin levels, generating a zero result. Patient retested using another tube that did not contain the white powder and different result obtained. |
| Recall action type: | Recall |
| Recall action: | Product to be returned to supplier |
| Level of recall: | |
| Date Commenced: | 23/12/2015 |
