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Culture Media, Non-Propagating Transport

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, Non-Propagating Transport LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#841 of 1000 · 581 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 581 reports
  • RANK #841 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 78 injury-typed
  • MALF 494 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 2018: 131
  • PHOTO Blood/Plasma Collecti…

Nearest event-volume peer: Blood/Plasma Collection Device For Dna Testing (0 report gap)

Culture Media, Non-Propagating Transport sits #841 of 1000 among tracked device types with 581 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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, Non-Propagating Transport carries 85.0% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 20.2pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 13.4% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-16.9 pp)
  • MALF 85.0% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+20.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Leak/Splash is 18% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECTON, DICKINSON & CO. (BROKEN BOW) accounts for 41% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 59% of location-tagged rows .

Culture Media, Non-Propagating Transport in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Culture Media, Non-Propagating Transport carries 581 MAUDE reports, ranked #841 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 494 (85.0%)
Injury 78 (13.4%)
Other 7 (1.2%)
1 (0.2%)
Death 1 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 322 (54.9%)
232 (39.6%)
Required Intervention 24 (4.1%)
O 2 (0.3%)
R 2 (0.3%)
H 1 (0.2%)
L 1 (0.2%)
S 1 (0.2%)
Death 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Leak/Splash 91
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 65
Material Protrusion/Extrusion 40
Short Fill 35
Product Quality Problem 31
Break 29
Fluid/Blood Leak 24
Volume Accuracy Problem 24
Delivered as Unsterile Product 22
Microbial Contamination of Device 22
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 19
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 19
Incorrect Or Inadequate Test Results 19
Detachment Of Device Component 17
Component Missing 14
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 11
Separation Problem 10
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 8
Device Ingredient or Reagent Problem 8
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 7

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 2
97
1997: 3
00
2000: 1
02
2002: 16
04
2004: 3
09
2009: 1
11
2011: 1
12
2012: 9
13
2013: 1
14
2014: 2
15
2015: 1
16
2016: 6
17
2017: 57
18
2018: 131
19
2019: 81
20
2020: 47
21
2021: 42
22
2022: 36
23
2023: 48
24
2024: 21
25
2025: 65
26
2026: 7

Reports rose to 65 in 2025, up from an average of 35 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Culture Media, Non-Propagating Transport

Top Manufacturers

BECTON, DICKINSON & CO. (BROKEN BOW) 202
BECTON, DICKINSON & CO. 172
BECTON DICKINSON 59
BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY (BD) 37
BECTON, DICKINSON & CO. (SPARKS) 14
BECTON DICKINSON & CO (FRANKLIN LAKES) 13

Event Locations

I 341 (58.7%)
197 (33.9%)
HOSPITAL 21 (3.6%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 14 (2.4%)
NO INFORMATION 6 (1.0%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.3%)

Compare BECTON, DICKINSON & CO. (BROKEN BOW) vs BECTON, DICKINSON & CO. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Culture Media, Non-Propagating Transport: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (581 here).

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Similar death-typed counts

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

Abutment, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 1 Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing… 1 Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic 1 Alarm, Conditioned Response Enuresis 1

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Culture Media, Non-Propagating Transport 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, Non-Propagating Transport; 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.