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Product Recall: 3M™ Heavy Duty Breathing Tubes (2312-0073)
Published by Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS):
Reason for the recall
- A limited number of breathing tubes, sold in certain Powered Air Respirator kits or separately as replacement parts, may have been shipped from 3M in a damaged condition.
Reasonsee the original notice
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Product
3M™ Heavy Duty Breathing Tubes
- Category
- Personal protective equipment ppe
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Type of recall
- Product recall
- Summary
- Product: 3M™ Heavy Duty Breathing Tubes
- Hazard: A limited number of breathing tubes, sold in certain Powered Air Respirator kits or separately as replacement parts, may have been shipped from 3M in a damaged condition.
- Corrective action: Recall of the product from end users.
- Product information
- Type
- Personal protective equipment (PPE) – Breathing Tubes
- Product identifiers
- SC-BT-56-ASB, SC-BT-56-ASB-L, SS-BT-55,SC-BT-55-L,SS-BT-44,SC-BT-44-L. See Annex on PDF below for list of stock numbers containing affected breathing tubes.
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
- Product Description
- Powered air respiratory breathing tubes
- Product Report and Image
- Link to product image and PDF
- Hazard
- A limited number of breathing tubes, sold in certain Powered Air Respirator kits or separately as replacement parts, may have been shipped from 3M in a damaged condition.
- Corrective action
- The manufacturer issued end user and distributor notifications to request all breathing tubes to be checked for signs of damage. The breathing tube should be bent to ensure it is flexible, and inspected for damage including tears, holes, or cracks.
- Damaged tubes should be removed from use and replacement requested from authorised distributors.
- The Manufacturer has introduced additional inspections before releasing further breathing tubes and kits to the market. The outer shipper case label of the products that have been subject to these additional inspections will be marked with a green sticker. For more information, please see the user advisory notice link:
- https://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/worker-health-safety-uk/news-events/full-story/?storyid=6925881e-0c1d-4f27-bcdd-cff1563ce69f
- Additional information
- PSD number: 2312-0073
- Notified by: Health and Safety Executive
What to do
- Recall of the product from end users.
- Product information
- Type
- Personal protective equipment (PPE) – Breathing Tubes
- Product identifiers
- SC-BT-56-ASB, SC-BT-56-ASB-L, SS-BT-55,SC-BT-55-L,SS-BT-44,SC-BT-44-L. See Annex on PDF below for list of stock numbers containing affected breathing tubes.
Source: Product Safety Alerts, Reports and Recalls (OPSS) — Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS)
Source: Office for Product Safety and Standards, GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. EU Safety Radar is an independent information service; the text above presents the official data in the original language — the notice published by the authority is authoritative.
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