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      "city": "Somerville",
      "address_1": "US Highway 22 West",
      "reason_for_recall": "Ethicon Fast Absorbing Surgical Gut (Plain) Suture is being recalled because the labeling on the box and foil are incomplete.",
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      "product_quantity": "1,922 units",
      "code_info": "Product Code: 1915G (box label); 1915 (Tyvek/Foil label)  Product Lot #'s JC6395, JC6417, JCK328, JCK329, JCK384, JCK716, JCM669, JCM757, JCZ987, JC5020, JC6710, JCM535, JCK330, JCK460, JCM668, JC5629 and JCM475.",
      "center_classification_date": "20150625",
      "distribution_pattern": "Worldwide Distribution -- US (nationwide) and Canada.",
      "state": "NJ",
      "product_description": "Ethicon Fast Absorbing Plain Gut - MultiPass Needles, Sterile, Absorbable Surgical Suture, 5-0 (1.5 metric), 18\" (45 cm), Conventional Cutting, Lot #JD6163, Exp: July 2019.  Fast absorbing surgical gut suture is a strand of collagenous material prepared from the submucosal layers of the small intestine of healthy sheep, or from the serosal layers of the small intestine of healthy cattle. Fast absorbing surgical gut sutures are sterile and elecit only a slight to minimal tissue reaction during absorption.",
      "report_date": "20150701",
      "classification": "Class II",
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      "recalling_firm": "Ethicon, Inc.",
      "recall_number": "Z-1839-2015",
      "initial_firm_notification": "Letter",
      "product_type": "Devices",
      "event_id": "71373",
      "termination_date": "20170606",
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      "recall_initiation_date": "20150508",
      "postal_code": "08876",
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