FDAMay 8, 2015device

Ethicon Fast Absorbing Plain Gut - MultiPass Needles, Sterile, Absorbable Surgical Suture, 5-0 (1.5 metric), 18" (45 cm), Conventional Cutting, Lot #JD6163, Exp: July 2019. Fast absorbing surgical gut suture is a strand of collagenous material prepared from the submucosal layers of the small inte...

Official recall recorded by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.

The hazard

Ethicon Fast Absorbing Surgical Gut (Plain) Suture is being recalled because the labeling on the box and foil are incomplete.

What to do

FDA enforcement status: Terminated

Brands named

ethicon

Recall history

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