Abbott Issues Recall of Certain Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems

by Gary Kopycinski on March 16, 2014

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Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 15, 2014. Abbott is voluntarily conducting a recall for the FreeStyle® Blood Glucose Meter and the FreeStyle Flash® Blood Glucose Meter. These two meters have not been in production since 2010. Other Abbott Diabetes Care meters are not affected by the recall

When used with the Abbott FreeStyle test strips, the FreeStyle Blood Glucose Meter and the FreeStyle Flash Blood Glucose Meter may produce mistakenly low blood glucose results. Abbott began notifying…