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# Qiagen Recalls QIAsymphony Filter Tips
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/qiagen-recalls-qiasymphony-filter-tips/
- Published: 2019-08-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T01:41:43.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Devices, #legacy-id-D5144683

Qiagen has recalled filter tips used with the QIAsymphony SP/AS instruments due to their potential to leak, which may result in delayed or inaccurate results. The pipetting system filter tips are used for clinical assay workflows or with in vitro diagnostic tests. “Due to a manufacturing malfunction resulting in defective filter-tips having internal abrasions from a bent manufacturing pin, the affected Qiagen filter-tips have the potential to leak, which may result in false positive results, false negative results, or incorrect quantification,” a [recall notice](https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/qiagen-recalls-filter-tips-use-qiasymphony-spas-instruments-due-potential-leak-which-may-result?ref=fdaweb.com) says. “Customers have reported splashes on the QIAsymphony instrument, liquid in the tip guard, dripping/leaking tips, failed test signals, empty wells indicative of volume loss, and incorrect test results with use of the defective tips.”