# FDA recall Z-2260-2018

> **Becton Dickinson & Company** · Class II · device recall initiated 2018-04-11.

## Product

The BD Vacutainer Plus Plastic Citrate Blood Collection Tube is an evacuated blood collection tube that provides a means of collecting, transporting, and processing blood in a closed tube. The buffered sodium citrate additive provides an anticoagulated specimen that may be used for clinical laboratory coagulation assays.

## Reason for recall

Approximately 3.4% of BD Vacutainer Plus Plastic Citrate Blood Collection Tubes (2.7mL) (light blue top tube) will exhibit over fill draw volumes from ~11-14%.

## Distribution

US/PR-All 50 states and PR  Global-AR, BO, BR, BS, BZ, CA, CO, CR, CW, DO, EC, GT, GY, IN, JM, JP, KR, MX, NI, PA, PE, SG, SR, SV, TT, TW, UY, VI    Dates of distribution:  June 2, 2017 to the present.

## Key facts

- **Recall number:** Z-2260-2018
- **Recalling firm:** Becton Dickinson & Company
- **Classification:** Class II
- **Product type:** device
- **Status:** Terminated
- **Initiation date:** 2018-04-11
- **Report date:** 2018-06-27
- **Termination date:** 2019-05-10

- **Voluntary/Mandated:** Voluntary: Firm initiated
- **Location:** Franklin Lakes, NJ, United States

## Primary source

FDA Enforcement Reports: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/index.cfm?Product=Z-2260-2018

## Citation

> AI Analytics. FDA recall Z-2260-2018. Retrieved 2026-05-29 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/recall/Z-2260-2018. Source: US FDA. Licensed CC0.

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