Warning from LifeScan, Inc.: Counterfeit Test Strips of OneTouch® Ultra® and OneTouch® Basic®/Profile® Test Strips, Discovered in the U.S.

Filed in archive Diagnostics on October 17, 2006

A Johnson & Johnson company and makers of the OneTouch® Brand of diabetes testing supplies, LifeScan, Inc. has recently identified several incidents of counterfeit OneTouch® Ultra® and OneTouch® (Basic®/Profile®) Test Strips.

The said test strips, being sold in the United States are intended for use with various models of LifeScan's OneTouch® Brand Blood Glucose Monitors used by people with diabetes to measure their blood glucose.

LifeScan did performace testing of these counterfeit strips and found erratic test results that do not meet the company's performance specifications. So LifeScan cannot assure how these counterfeit strips will perform, the reliability and accuracy of blood glucose results is not assured.

LifeScan enumerated the following characteristics discovered in the outer cartons of the counterfeit test strips:
OneTouch Ultra Test Strips

• Multiple Languages-English and French text on the outer carton;


• Lot Number 2691191 (located on outer carton and vial); and


• Limited to 50-Count OneTouch Ultra Test Strip packages.


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  OneTouch (Basic/Profile) Test Strips
  


• Multiple Languages-English, Greek and Portuguese text on the outer carton;


• Lot Numbers 272894A, 2619932 or 2606340 (located on outer carton and vial); and


• Limited to 50-Count OneTouch (Basic/Profile) Test Strip packages.

Consumers and patients are advised to visit the official website for detailed description of this issue, specific information for merchants, and periodic updates.

Find more details from the press releases at LifeScan and PR Newswire.