Beckman Coulter Ireland Inc

Beckman Coulter identified that LDL Cholesterol OSR6x96 is not meeting the performance claim listed in the Instructions for Use (IFU). LDL Cholesterol reagent showed clinically significant interference due to triglyceride concentration up to 1500 mg/dL may cause a maximum positive bias of up to 28.8% in low LDL Cholesterol samples (concentration 80 mg/dL) and up to 11.02% in high LDL Cholesterol samples (concentration 160mg/dL).

Bicarbonate reagent may generate falsely high Bicarbonate results due to interference with Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) in the test sample.

The product Value Assignment Sheet (VAS) is used in calibration of the device. An erroneous value was included in the VAS which has the potential to generate an incorrect APO B patient result which could exceed the total allowable error for the APO B assay (11.6%). The error results in results with a positive bias up to 42%. However, based on the mitigating factors the risk to health is considered to be negligible or limited.