DeviceSignal · Recall classified
Fort Defiance Industries, LLC
FDA classified a device recall on 2026-08-18 · Class II · Z-2983-2026
EventRecall classified
Effective2026-08-18
ClassificationClass II
On 2026-08-18 the FDA classified a device recall from Fort Defiance Industries, LLC as Class II. Product: Fort Defiance Industries (FDI), Automated Field Steam Sterilizer REF: P2131. Recall Z-2983-2026. The firm initiated it on 2026-07-08. This reports the classification FDA published on that date.
Reported facts
- Recall number
- Z-2983-2026
- Classification
- Class II
- Classified on
- 2026-08-18
- Initiated on
- 2026-07-08
- Firm
- Fort Defiance Industries, LLC
- Reason
- The Automated Field Steam Sterilizer's water recovery system 120V Amphenol connector may experience an intermittent loss of ground continuity, which could result in an unreliable fault current return path.
- Product
- Fort Defiance Industries (FDI), Automated Field Steam Sterilizer REF: P2131
Every field above is as fda_device_enforcement published it. Nothing on this page is our interpretation.
Provenance
- Source
- fda_device_enforcement
- Source record
Z-2983-2026- Snapshot hash
ab5ada73bf212eb52a548aab0968a0fcee42807c61b0350e60e24bb6e2beed72- Source URL
- https://download.open.fda.gov/device/enforcement/device-enforcement-0001-of-0001.json.zip
- Observed
- 2026-09-08T16:22:09.483Z
- Transform
fda_device_enforcement_to_recall v1- Event rule
fda_device_recall_classified v1- Event key
981a56a77063257693da74664622a92c3d4f39a4696bf974e530d6bb59a5867b- Signal type
device_recall.classified
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