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BECKMAN COULTER INC. INTERNAL INVESTIGATION RESULTS INDICATED THAT THREE COMMERCIALLY RELEASED ACCESS FOLATE ASSAY CALIBRATOR LOTS RECOVERED HIGHER THAN COMPARABLE BECKMAN COULTER INC. REFERENCE CALIBRATOR VALUES. THESE LOTS SIMULATED STABILITY RESULTS EQUALED OR EXCEEDED UPPER STABILITY ACCEPTANCE LIMITS AS WELL. THROUGH BECKMAN COULTER INC. INTERNAL INVESTIGATION, IT WAS ALSO IDENTIFIED THAT A FOURTH COMMERCIALLY RELEASED ACCESS FOLATE ASSAY CALIBRATOR LOT, FROM A SECOND BECKMAN COULTER INC. PRODUCT CODE, DID NOT SATISFY SPECIFIC PRODUCT STABILITY TIME POINT THE TWO ACCESS FOLATE ASSAY CALIBRATOR PRODUCT CODES INVOLVED WITH THIS EVENT POSSESSED IDENTICAL FORMULATIONS. THIS REPORT REPRESENTS THE ELEVATED DOSE RECOVERY AND SIMULATED STABILITY RESULTS EXPERIENCED BY ONE OF THE ACCESS FOLATE ASSAY CALIBRATOR PRODUCT CODES, A14207, WITH LOT NUMBER 112788. AN EVALUATION OF INTERNAL ASSESSMENT DATA REVEALED THAT THIS LOT'S RECOVERING DOSE WAS APPROXIMATELY EIGHTEEN PERCENT HIGHER THAN INTERNAL FOLATE REFERENCE CALIBRATORS. FURTHER INVESTIGATION ALSO INDICATED THAT ACCESS FOLATE ASSAY CALIBRATOR LOT 112788 SIMULATED STABILITY RESULTS WERE PROJECTED TO EXCEED THE STABILITY TESTING REQUIREMENTS OF TWELVE PERCENT. NO PATIENT RESULTS WERE INVOLVED IN THIS SPECIFIC EVENT AND HENCE THERE WAS NO DEATH, SERIOUS INJURY OR MODIFICATION TO PATIENT TREATMENT ASSOCIATED OR ATTRIBUTED TO THIS EVENT.