Pedicle Screw Spinal System, Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

What Is This Device?

Intended to stabilize the thoracolumbar spine as an adjunct to fusion using allograft and/or autograft to treat adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

How Is OSH Classified?

Pedicle Screw Spinal System, Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis is FDA product code OSH, Class 2, 21 CFR 888.3070.

What Does It Take to Sell It in the United States?

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 Has Gone Wrong With It?

The FDA has recorded 1 recall under this product code since 2017. None was by a company in China. The root cause the FDA records most often is Employee error (1).

A recall is a fact about one product and its maker, not a grade for every manufacturer of the type.