Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Long-Term Greater Than 30 Days

How Is LJS Classified?

Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Long-Term Greater Than 30 Days is FDA product code LJS, Class 2, 21 CFR 880.5970.

How Does It Reach the US Market?

A 510(k) premarket notification is required before it is sold in the United States: the applicant shows the device is substantially equivalent to one already on the market. No clearance under this code names a Chinese applicant. A registration is not a clearance: the plants above are set up to make it, and the 510(k) it is sold under is held by whoever files it, often the brand.

What Do the Recalls Say?

The FDA has recorded 332 recalls under this product code since 2003. None was by a company in China. 4 are Class I, the most serious grade.

The root causes the FDA records most often are Nonconforming Material/Component (67), Process control (63) and Material/Component Contamination (34). A recall is a fact about one product and its maker, not a grade for every manufacturer of the type.