At Ethicon, our first responsibility is to the patients, healthcare professionals and all those who use our products. Regrettably, counterfeit medical devices have become more prevalent in recent years, posing a very real and potentially serious threat to public health. On those occasions when Ethicon receives and confirms reports about the existence of counterfeit product in a specific market, information is distributed to potentially impacted customers and posted on this web site for reference purposes.

Counterfeit product is fake product not made by Ethicon. Use of counterfeit product could result in a threat to patient safety and health. Since Ethicon, Inc. did not manufacture counterfeit product, it cannot confirm the performance or sterility of this material.

For detailed information regarding known counterfeit product in a specific country, select the appropriate country link from the list below. If you suspect that you have counterfeit product, you should immediately discontinue its use and notify your local Ethicon contact, distributor or sales representative. For more information about how Ethicon is doing to address the threat of counterfeiting, please click here.