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Medical Device Alert: FreeStyle Lite? home use blood glucose test strips

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Northerner

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FreeStyle Lite? home use blood glucose test strips, manufactured by Abbott Diabetes Care, used with:
FreeStyle?, FreeStyle Mini? and FreeStyle Navigator? blood glucose meters (manufactured by Abbott Diabetes Care)
the FreeStyle? blood glucose meter built into the OmniPod? insulin management system (manufactured by Insulet Corporation).

Lot numbers and expiry dates of affected strips:

1284962 – 06/2014
1366626 – 12/2014
1372611 – 02/2015

http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/groups/dts-bs/documents/medicaldevicealert/con348298.pdf
 
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Thanks Alan. Important info for those that use them
 
Just checked my supplies and none have those lot numbers then noticed my, now spare, meter is a Freestyle Insulinx and not mentioned on the list.
 
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