# K113249: Transport Culture Medium Device

- Pathway: 510(k) (Traditional)
- Applicant: Puritan Medical Products, LLC
- Decided: Mar 1, 2012 after 119 days
- Product code: JSM (Culture Media, Non-Propagating Transport)
- Device class: 1
- Regulation: 21 CFR 866.2390
- Recalls of this device: none
- Data: FDA decisions to Oct 25, 2026; recalls to Oct 12, 2026

## Lineage
Longest line of descent: 2 generations back to K910526 (1991). 2 ancestors in all.
4 later devices descend from it; 2 cite it directly.
0 of 7 devices in its family (counting itself) have a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- K042970: Copan Universal Transport Medium (Utm-RT) System, Copan Diagnostics, Inc. (2004) Summary page 2.

## Most influential descendants
- K201674: Cultura Collection and Transport System (2021), 2 descendants of its own
- K242576: AllTest Viral Transport Medium (2025), 0 descendants of its own
- K232357: Copan Universal Transport Medium (UTM-RT) System (2024), 0 descendants of its own
- K211707: BioTeke Sterile Disposable Virus Sampling Kit (2022), 0 descendants of its own

## Indications for use
Puritan UTM -. RT Collection and Transport System is intended for the collection and transport of clinical samples containing viruses, chlamydiae, mycoplasmas and ureaplasmas from the collection site to the testing laboratory. The specimen transported in the Puritan UTM - RT can be used in the laboratory to perform viral, chiamydial, mycoplasmal and ureaplasmal culture.

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K113249
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology