Culture Media, Selective And Non-Differential
FDA adverse event reports and recall history for culture media, selective and non-differential (product code JSJ), from the public MAUDE/AEMS corpus and the live FDA recall database.
- Total reports
- 534
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Malfunctions
- 534
Reports per year
Source: FDA adverse event reports by year received, 1995–2026. Reporting paused during the 2026 MAUDE-to-AEMS transition and has since resumed.
Recent recalls
- 2026-02-26Open, ClassifiedUnder Investigation by firm
Campy CVA Medium 100/PK, R01272
Customer complaints report low to no recovery of Campylobacter Jejuni ATCC 33291 on identified lot of medium.
- 2013-07-24TerminatedNonconforming Material/Component
BD BBL Schaedler K-V Agar with 5% Sheep Blood, carton of 20 plates, catalog # 221555, labeled in part ***Becton, Dickinson and Company 7 Loveton Circle Sparks, MD 21152 USA 800-638-8663 www.bd.com/ds*** Vancomycin Screen Agar is used to test entercocci for resistance to vancomycin and to predict the synergistic activity of this antimicrobial with an aminoglycoside antimicrobial.
Microbiological identification media may exhibit reduced levels of Vancomycin.
- 2013-07-24TerminatedNonconforming Material/Component
BD BBL CDC Anaerobe 5% Sheep Blood Agar with Kanamycin and Vancomycin (KV), packaged in cartons of 100 plates, Catalog # 221736, and labeled in part ***Becton, Dickinson and Company 7 Loveton Circle Sparks, MD 21152 USA 800-638-8663 www.bd.com/ds*** CDC Anaerobe 5% Sheep Blood Agar with Kanamycin and Vancomycin is used for the selective isolation of fastidious and slow-growing, obligately anaerobic gram-negative bacteria from a variety of clinical and nonclinical materials.
Microbiological identification media may exhibit reduced levels of Vancomycin.
- 2013-07-24TerminatedNonconforming Material/Component
BD BBL Anaerobe CNA Agar with 5% Sheep Blood // Anaerobe Laked Sheep Blood KV Agar, packaged in cartons of 20 plates, Catalog # 297041, and labeled in part ***Becton, Dickinson and Company 7 Loveton Circle Sparks, MD 21152 USA 800-638-8663 www.bd.com/ds*** Anaerobe Laked Sheep Blood KV Agar is used in a qualitative procedure for isolation of gram-negative anaerobic bacilli.
Microbiological identification media may exhibit reduced levels of Vancomycin.
- TerminatedError in labeling
Campylobacter Blood Free Selective Medium, PN 7527A Used with cefoperazone for the selective isolation of Campylobacter spp. In a laboratory setting. Not intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions in humans.
The product is labeled with an incorrect expiration date.
- TerminatedUnder Investigation by firm
Hardy Diagnostics GBS Detect Cat no. A300. Used for the isolation and detection by enhanced hemolysis of gamma-hemolytic (non-hemolytic) Group B Streptococcus.
Performance failure; poor hemolytic reaction of non or weakly hemolytic group B streptococcus (GBS) with the target QC organism, Streptococcus agalactiae (ATCC 13813) due to product deterioration.
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