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Gram Negative Identification Plus Card

K962609510(k) TraditionalCleared Aug 30, 199658-day reviewClass I21 CFR 866.2660

Data to Oct 25, 2026 (FDA decisions) Oct 12, 2026 (recalls) Sep 30, 2026 (MAUDE) refreshed weekly, last Nov 3, 2026

Biomerieux Vitek, Inc. · LRH Instrument For Auto Reader Of Overnight Microorganism Identification System

Cleared on Aug 30, 1996 after a 58-day review. The FDA summary names its predicate without a number.

Decided
Aug 30, 1996
Review
58 days
Class
Class I
Product code
LRH
Recalls
None
Predicates
0

The FDA summary names its predicate without a number.

FIG. 1 — Lineage of K962609Source: FDA 510(k) database · How lineage is built

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What was it cleared against? (1)

Devices the submitter claimed this one is substantially equivalent to (*), and reference devices cited for a specific test or feature (†), as written in the FDA summary.

TypeNumberDeviceApplicantDecidedRecalls
*—Gram Negative Identification (GNI) Card
Named without a submission number
—

What descends from it?

No later submission names this one as a predicate yet.

Has anything in its family been recalled? (0 Class I)

No FDA recall names this device.

No ancestor or descendant has a Class I recall.

How does its category compare?

All LRH devices

LRH Instrument For Auto Reader Of Overnight Microorganism Identification System: FDA decisions, review times, recalls and adverse event reports over 20 years.

FDA decisions per year · LRH

FDA has decided no LRH device since 2007.

Median 510(k) review, days · LRH

Too few LRH 510(k)s in any year since 2007 to give a median.

Recalls per year · LRH

No recall names LRH since 2007.

Adverse event reports per year · LRH

1in 2022

2010: 12016: 62022: 1
2007high 6 (2016) · low 0 (2007)2025

MAUDE reports naming product code LRH, not matched to any one device; reports are not rates.

View these four charts as a table
YearDecisionsMedian 510(k) review, daysRecalls (Class I)MAUDE reports
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20090—00
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20130—00
20140—00
20150—00
20160—06
20170—00
20180—00
20190—00
20200—00
20210—00
20220—01
20230—00
20240—00
20250—00
20260—0—

What is it indicated for?

The Vitek GNI+ Card is intended to be used in conjunction with the Vitek System for the automated identification of microorganism of the family Enterobacteriaceae. In addition, a select group of glucose non-fermenting gram-negative bacteria, and members of the family Vibrionaceae can be identified.

Indications for use read by OCR from a scanned FDA summary, so letters may be misread. Check the PDF before quoting it.

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510(k) Report. “K962609: Gram Negative Identification Plus Card.” Lineage record from FDA 510(k) data and the FDA summary. Updated Nov 3, 2026. Accessed Nov 4, 2026. https://510kreport.com/device/K962609

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Record history
  • FDA decision record loaded May 2, 2026
  • Summary read Oct 13, 2026 (extraction version 9eaa42aa01ed)
  • Page last updated Nov 3, 2026