Roche Diabetes Care Recalls

Hazard: The reason for recall is the meters may show an incorrect measurement unit (mmol/L rather than mg/dL) and may result in the wrong unit of measure. Which may subsequently cause an error in interpreting a result as approximately 18 times lower that the actual blood glucose. Potential immediate health consequences of the glucose meter providing a reading in the wrong units of measurement (UOM) may result in inappropriate rescue therapy for presumed hypoglycemia including urgent and repeat administration of carbohydrates. This in turn could lead to frequent episodes of hyperglycemia which is unrecognized and undertreated.Long range consequences of continued use of the affected meters could include mismanagement of the patient s diabetes for longer periods of time potentially resulting in a major health event (in general persistent and/or severe hyperglycemia) that may lead them to seek medical attention, and depending on the duration of hyperglycemia, could contribute to the development of microvascular (i.e., retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy) and/or macrovascular (i.e., myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke) complications of diabetes and could lead to fetal damage (abnormal fetal growth and altered organ development and maturation, fetal hypoxemia, spontaneous abortion, and congenital anomalies) in pregnant women. This issue was identified by three initial consumer complaints, with reports that the meters were presenting the incorrect unit of measure.

Hazard: Potential for patient data mismatch when using browser "back" button to navigate between patients when using the diabetes management software.

Hazard: Test strip vials may open while inside sealed cartons during shipment. An open vial might expose the test strips to humidity, which might damage the strips and result in inaccurate results, potentially leading to inappropriate therapy decisions and adverse health consequences.

Hazard: Test strip vials may open while inside sealed cartons during shipment. An open vial might expose the test strips to humidity, which might damage the strips and result in inaccurate results, potentially leading to inappropriate therapy decisions and adverse health consequences.

Hazard: Test strip vials may open while inside sealed cartons during shipment. An open vial might expose the test strips to humidity, which might damage the strips and result in inaccurate results, potentially leading to inappropriate therapy decisions and adverse health consequences.

Hazard: Test strip vials may open while inside sealed cartons during shipment. An open vial might expose the test strips to humidity, which might damage the strips and result in inaccurate results, potentially leading to inappropriate therapy decisions and adverse health consequences.

Hazard: Inability to dose the test strips, may result in a temporary inability to get a result that could lead to a delay in treatment and/or therapy decisions

Hazard: Inability to dose the test strips, may result in a temporary inability to get a result that could lead to a delay in treatment and/or therapy decisions

Hazard: Inability to dose the test strips, may result in a temporary inability to get a result that could lead to a delay in treatment and/or therapy decisions

Hazard: Potential power issues with the Accu-Chek¿ Guide Blood Glucose Monitoring System.

Hazard: Potential power issues with the Accu-Chek¿ Guide Blood Glucose Monitoring System.

Hazard: Potential power issues with the Accu-Chek¿ Guide Blood Glucose Monitoring System.

Hazard: Potential power issues with the Accu-Chek¿ Guide Blood Glucose Monitoring System.

Hazard: Potential power issues with the Accu-Chek¿ Guide Blood Glucose Monitoring System.

Hazard: Potential power issues with the Accu-Chek¿ Guide Blood Glucose Monitoring System.

Hazard: Meters may contain a damaged C29 capacitor resulting in issues with power allegation (short battery life or meter not turning on).

Hazard: Meters may contain a damaged C29 capacitor resulting in issues with power allegation (short battery life or meter not turning on).

Hazard: Users with Android OS 8.0 and above may be unable to transfer values obtained on their meter to the App.

Hazard: The recalling firm has identified two lots of test strips that are out of specification. Affected test strips show an increased potential for: strip errors prior to applying a blood sample; strips not detected once inserted; or a biased result may occur, which may not be detectable. In the case of a biased result, incorrect action could be taken by the user in response to the displayed blood glucose result as compared to the actual blood glucose value.

Hazard: The recalling firm has identified two lots of test strips that are out of specification. Affected test strips show an increased potential for: strip errors prior to applying a blood sample; strips not detected once inserted; or a biased result may occur, which may not be detectable. In the case of a biased result, incorrect action could be taken by the user in response to the displayed blood glucose result as compared to the actual blood glucose value.

Hazard: The recalling firm identified four US lots of test strips out of specification. Affected strips show increased potential for strip errors prior to applying blood, strips not detected once inserted, or biased results, which may not be detectable. In the case of a biased result, incorrect action could be taken by the user in response to the displayed blood glucose result.

Hazard: Certain iOS and Android App versions contain a program error (bug) in the Bolus Advisor feature. Due to a software bug, when the OS region of the phone setting is changed, the unit of measure within the app may unexpectedly change. This creates a risk the app might not transfer the blood glucose result or the user might not correctly input numerical values for carbohydrate used for bolus advice.

Hazard: Certain iOS and Android App versions contain a program error (bug) in the Bolus Advisor feature. After pairing a meter with the app for the first time, a customer may encounter the rare condition in which the countdown timer is not displayed and correction bolus advice is not available for the most recent, valid glucose reading. This same blood glucose value may become available for bolus advice calculation at a later time (countdown timer is displayed).

Hazard: A program error (bug) in the Bolus Advisor feature, which could result in incorrect bolus advice and a potential insulin over-delivery.

Hazard: iOS and Android: Under certain conditions the affected app versions may disregard historical bolus data potentially leading to an incorrect bolus insulin recommendation being provided to the user. iOS only: Pairing and using multiple meters with the Accu-Chek Connect app can under rare circumstances cause the bolus advisor to fail to offer a correction bolus recommendation within the eligible time window following a blood glucose measurement (10  15 minutes). Depending on the individual metabolic situation potentially incorrect bolus advice could lead to serious health consequences such as hypoglycemia. Both software issues may also cause the amount of active insulin displayed during the bolus calculation process to be incorrect and should not be used to manually calculate a bolus.

Hazard: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. initiated a voluntary recall for the version 1.2.0 of Accu-Chek Connect Diabetes Management App (iOS), released on July 11, 2016, due to the software containing a programming error (bug) in the Bolus Advisor feature, which could lead to an incorrect insulin bolus recommendation.

Hazard: Roche has become aware of an increase of mechanical errors experienced by customers using the Accu-Chek Spirit Combo insulin infusion pump and Accu-Chek Spirit insulin infusion pump when the insulin pumps display E6 and El0 error messages. If the user does not act upon the E6 and E10 error messages appropriately, insulin delivery will be stopped and if unnoticed may lead to severe hyperglycemia u

Hazard: Roche has become aware of an increase of mechanical errors experienced by customers using the Accu-Chek Spirit Combo insulin infusion pump and Accu-Chek Spirit insulin infusion pump when the insulin pumps display E6 and El0 error messages. If the user does not act upon the E6 and E10 error messages appropriately, insulin delivery will be stopped and if unnoticed may lead to severe hyperglycemia u

Hazard: Roche Diabetes Care has become aware of an issue with the Accu-Chek Connect diabetes management app that could potentially lead to inaccurate bolus advice being provided to the user. A thorough investigation of the situation revealed that this issue may occur if the user changes the screen orientation of the phone from portrait to landscape or vise versa while looking at the Bolus Advisor or Carb