Culture Media, Selective And Non-Differential
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 §866.2360 (Microbiology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Culture Media LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#869 of 1000 · 534 reports · 1995–2026
- BOOK 534 reports
- RANK #869 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 0 injury-typed
- MALF 534 malfunction
- SPAN 1995–2026
- PEAK 2025: 337
- PHOTO Mask, Surgical
Nearest event-volume peer: Mask, Surgical (0 report gap)
Culture Media, Selective And Non-Differential sits #869 of 1000 among tracked device types with 534 MAUDE reports spanning 1995–2026. 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 carries 100.0% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 35.2pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 0.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-30.3 pp)
- MALF 100.0% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+35.2 pp)
Lead product-problem code Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings is 82% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECTON DICKINSON & CO. (SPARKS) accounts for 62% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 93% of location-tagged rows .
Culture Media in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Bag
Bag, Urinary, Ileostomy
539 reports
- Container
Container, Specimen, Sterile
539 reports
- Accessories
Accessories, Pump, Infusion
537 reports
- Culture Media (this)
Culture Media, Selective And Non-Differential
534 reports
- Mask, Surgical
Mask, Surgical
534 reports
- Electrode
Electrode, Cutaneous
529 reports
What this shows Culture Media, Selective And Non-Differential carries 534 MAUDE reports, ranked #869 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 337 in 2025, up from an average of 18 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Culture Media, Selective And Non-Differential
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare BECTON DICKINSON & CO. (SPARKS) vs BECTON DICKINSON GMBH →
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Culture Media 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 (534 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 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.