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Product safety recall – Certain Boston Scientific Catheters

National Consumer Commission South Africa - Product safety recalls (WordPress REST) Authoritative source Published 10th September 2026 South Africa

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What the source reported

Source-reported

National Consumer Commission (South Africa): Product safety recall – Certain Boston Scientific Catheters. The National Consumer Commission (NCC) informs consumers and healthcare professionals of a product safety recall affecting certain Imager II Angiographic Catheters as notified by Boston Scientific. The recall affects 11 units sold nationally from 17 September 2025 to 04 May 2026. The product was distributed to Polokwane Provincial and Dr George Mukhari Hospitals. According to the supplier, the […]

Publication
National Consumer Commission South Africa - Product safety recalls (WordPress REST) · Government/Regulator
Published
10th September 2026
Original report
thencc.org.za

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Regulation & Trade
Geography
South Africa
Organisations
None identified
Collected
30th September 2026 · 00:25

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 3 · Moderate

Initial Significance Low (16.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (60.0/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points).

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth
Possibly the same underlying story as Product safety advice for businesses — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.