Becton, Dickinson and Company, BD Biosciences recalls BD FACSLyric Flow Cytometer, 3-Laser 10 Color Instrument, RE

Hazard / Issue

Flow cytometers, when used with specific tubes may experience excessive electronic abort counts (electronic abort count of beads exceeds 1.0% of the total processed events), which may affect the ratio of cell population events to bead events, potentially resulting in falsely high absolute counts. This may affect the following: initiation of prophylactic therapy for Opportunistic Infections (HIV patients), decisions regarding care/management (PID/immune suppressed patients), laboratory developed tests/experiments, specimen engraftment potency, and use of leucoreduced blood products for transfusion.

Issued by

FDA

Affected States: CA, KS, NJ, MI, NY, PA, IL, IN, VA, WA, MD, IA, OK, RI, FL, CO, OH, TX, TN, GA, MO, MN, HI, VT, MA, NE

Lot/Code Info: BD FACSLyric Flow Cytometer serial numbers: Z662878000003, Z662878000041, Z662878000042, Z662878000043, Z662878000044, Z662878000045, Z662878000046, Z662878000047, Z662878000049, Z662878000050, Z662878000051, Z662878000052, Z662878000053, Z662878000054, Z662878000055, Z662878000056, Z662878000057, Z662878000058, Z662878000059, Z662878000060, Z662878000061, Z662878000062, Z662878000063, Z662878000064, Z662878000065, Z662878000066, Z662878000067, Z662878000068, Z662878000069, Z662878000070, Z662878000071, Z662878000072, Z662878000073, Z662878000074, Z662878000075, Z662878000076, Z662878000077, Z662878000078, Z662878000079, Z662878000080, Z662878000081, Z662878000082, Z662878000083, Z662878000084, Z662878000085, Z662878000086, Z662878000087, Z662878000088, Z662878000089, Z662878000090, Z662878000091, Z662878000092, Z662878000093, Z662878000094, Z662878000095, Z662878000096, Z662878000097, Z662878000098, Z662878000105, Z662878000106, Z662878000107, Z662878000108, Z662878000109, Z662878000110, Z662878000111, Z662878000112, Z662878000113, Z662878000114, Z662878000115, Z662878000116, Z662878000117, Z662878000118, Z662878000119, Z662878000120, Z662878000121, Z662878000122, Z662878000123, Z662878000048.