MOLDEX

Additional Manufacturer Narrative

BACKGROUND: MEDWATCH REPORT #MW5096408 RECEIVED ON 10/15/2020. PHONE CALL ATTEMPT TO INITIAL REPORTER, (B)(6) WAS MADE ON (B)(6) 2020 AT 2 PM PST BUT WAS SENT TO VOICE MAIL. EMAIL REQUESTING A CALL BACK FROM INITIAL REPORTER WAS SENT TO (B)(6) BY MOLDEX 'S (B)(4) ON (B)(4) 2020 AT 2:32 PM PST. (B)(6) EMAILED BACK ON (B)(6) 2020 AND AGREED TO A CALL THAT DAY AT 1PM EST. KEY POINTS FROM CALL WITH (B)(6) AT 1 PM EST (B)(6) 2020 WITH MOLDEX' (B)(4) AND (B)(4): O SHE INDICATED SHE HAD NO CONCERNS WITH THE MOLDEX MASKS BUT THAT THE REPROCESSING FROM (B)(4) WAS CAUSING HERSELF AND MANY OTHERS TO HAVE SYMPTOMS AS NOTED IN THE MEDWATCH REPORT MW5096408. O SHE ADVISED THAT THE MASKS CAUSING THE REPORTED SYMPTOMS WERE THE MOLDEX 1512 MODEL THAT HAD BEEN REPROCESSED BY (B)(4). O SHE ADVISED THAT IN ALL CASES WHEN THE REPROCESSED MASK WAS REPLACED BY A BRAND-NEW MASK, THERE WERE NO FURTHER SYMPTOMS. O SHE ADVISED THAT THEY HAD SIMILAR PROBLEMS WITH REPROCESSED MASKS FROM OTHER MFRS. AND WERE NO LONGER USING REPROCESSED MASKS. O SHE ADVISED THAT THE MASKS THAT CAUSED THESE SYMPTOMS WERE ALL IMMEDIATELY DISPOSED OF AND THEREFORE NOT AVAILABLE FOR MOLDEX EXAMINE. CONCLUSION: MOLDEX SURGICAL N95 RESPIRATORS ARE SINGLE USE DEVICES AND ARE NOT RECOMMENDED BY MOLDEX FOR REPROCESSING, DECONTAMINATION OR REUSE. THE INCIDENT DESCRIBED BY THE INITIATOR OF THE SUBJECT MEDWATCH REPORT IS BELIEVED TO BE THE RESULT OF PROCESSING PROBLEMS FROM THE DECONTAMINATION PROCESS PERFORMED BY (B)(4). THIS IS SUPPORTED BY THE INITIATOR'S STATEMENT THAT WHEN THE REPROCESSED MASK WAS REPLACED WITH A NEW, NON-REPROCESSED MASK THE SYMPTOMS DISAPPEARED. FURTHER, MOLDEX HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY PRIOR COMPLAINTS OR REPORTS OF THESE SYMPTOMS FROM USE OF IT'S PRODUCT. MOLDEX ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE FDA HAS ISSUED EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATION FOR THE DECONTAMINATION/REPROCESSING OF DISPOSABLE RESPIRATORS BUT HAS NOT DESIGNED FOR NOR RECOMMENDS THE REUSE OF OR DECONTAMINATION OF IT'S PRODUCTS.

Description of Event or Problem

CRNA USING REPROCESSED MASK FROM (B)(6). BECAME SHORT OF BREATH AND UNABLE TO BREATHE WHEN WEARING REPROCESSED MASK. NEW MASK GIVEN, NO FURTHER PROBLEMS REPORTED. FDA SAFETY REPORT ID#(B)(4).