Culture Media, Enriched
Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §866.2330 (Microbiology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Culture Media, Enriched LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#397 of 1000 · 3,141 reports · 2021–2026
- BOOK 3,141 reports
- RANK #397 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 5 injury-typed
- MALF 3,136 malfunction
- SPAN 2021–2026
- PEAK 2025: 2,713
- PHOTO Dressing, Wound, Drug
Nearest event-volume peer: Dressing, Wound, Drug (3 report gap)
Culture Media, Enriched sits #397 of 1000 among tracked device types with 3,141 MAUDE reports spanning 2021–2026. 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Culture Media, Enriched carries 99.8% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 35.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 0.2% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-30.1 pp)
- MALF 99.8% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+35.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Contamination is 81% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECTON DICKINSON GMBH accounts for 83% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 100% of location-tagged rows .
Culture Media, Enriched in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Apparatus
Apparatus, Autotransfusion
3,163 reports
- Dilator
Dilator, Vessel, For Percutaneous Catheterization
3,156 reports
- Endoscopic Ti…
Endoscopic Tissue Approximation Device
3,154 reports
- Saline
Saline, Vascular Access Flush
3,148 reports
- Dressing
Dressing, Wound, Drug
3,144 reports
- Culture Media (this)
Culture Media, Enriched
3,141 reports
What this shows Culture Media, Enriched carries 3,141 MAUDE reports, ranked #397 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports rose to 2,713 in 2025, up from an average of 17 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Culture Media, Enriched
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare BECTON DICKINSON GMBH vs BECTON, DICKINSON & CO. (SPARKS) →
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Culture Media, Enriched carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (3,141 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Culture Media, Enriched 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, Enriched; 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.