2025 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Culture Media, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test, Excluding Mueller Hinton Agar

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Culture Media LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#749 of 1000 · 733 reports · 1998–2025

  • BOOK 733 reports
  • RANK #749 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 9 injury-typed
  • MALF 723 malfunction
  • SPAN 1998–2025
  • PEAK 2025: 519
  • PHOTO Pacemaker Lead Adaptor

Nearest event-volume peer: Pacemaker Lead Adaptor (0 report gap)

Culture Media, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test, Excluding Mueller Hinton Agar sits #749 of 1000 among tracked device types with 733 MAUDE reports spanning 1998–2025. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 1.2% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-29.2 pp)
  • MALF 98.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+34.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings is 77% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECTON DICKINSON GMBH accounts for 61% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 80% of location-tagged rows .

Culture Media in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Culture Media, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test, Excluding Mueller Hinton Agar carries 733 MAUDE reports, ranked #749 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 723 (98.6%)
Injury 9 (1.2%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

711 (97.1%)
Other 13 (1.8%)
Required Intervention 7 (1.0%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 517
False Positive Result 91
Incorrect Or Inadequate Test Results 26
False Negative Result 13
Contamination 4
Defective Device 4
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 4
Contamination of Device Ingredient or Reagent 3
Device Ingredient or Reagent Problem 2
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 1
Incorrect Measurement 1
Material Discolored 1
Nonstandard Device 1
Output Problem 1

Yearly Trend

98
1998: 10
99
1999: 2
05
2005: 16
06
2006: 9
08
2008: 1
10
2010: 1
11
2011: 1
13
2013: 1
15
2015: 32
16
2016: 17
17
2017: 43
18
2018: 14
19
2019: 9
20
2020: 7
21
2021: 27
22
2022: 8
23
2023: 12
24
2024: 4
25
2025: 519

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Event Locations

589 (80.4%)
I 128 (17.5%)
NOT APPLICABLE 12 (1.6%)
HOSPITAL 4 (0.5%)

Compare BECTON DICKINSON GMBH vs BECTON DICKINSON & CO. (SPARKS) →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Culture Media, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (733 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Culture Media are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Culture Media; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.