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Health Sciences Authority
Dear Healthcare Professional Letters

Voluntary recall of specific lots of Coated VICRYL™ Plus Antibacterial (polyglactin 910) Suture

Audiences

Healthcare professional

Industry member

Product type

Medical devices

3 June 2024

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A Dear Healthcare Professional Letter has been issued by Johnson & Johnson International (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. to inform healthcare professionals of a voluntary recall of specific lots of Coated VICRYL™ Plus Antibacterial (polyglactin 910) Suture. A manufacturing issue on a specific packaging machine has resulted in a hole in the primary packaging of a small percentage of sutures manufactured between 27 January and 27 March 2024. This breach in sterility may introduce pathogens to patients and cause infections requiring medical interventions. The sutures may also have compromised physical properties leading to treatment failure. Healthcare professionals are advised to identify, quarantine and return all unused affected products. Those who have treated patients using these affected products should follow the patients post-operatively in the usual manner with no additional action required. Please refer to the letter for details.

Only abstracts of the Dear Healthcare Professional Letters (DHCPL) are provided on this website. Details of these letters can be found in the MOH Alert System, which is accessible via the Health Professionals Portal (HPP), a one-stop portal for all healthcare professionals in Singapore. Dentists, medical doctors and pharmacists may access HPP at https://hpp.moh.gov.sg (opens in new tab) and follow the procedures below to access the MOH Alert system.

Step 1: Select your profession under ‘For Healthcare Professionals’.

Step 2: Click on ‘Useful links’.

Step 3: Click on ‘MOH Alert’ and log in via Singpass.

Step 4: Click on ‘Drug Alerts’ or ‘Med Device Alerts’ to view the DHCPLs.