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Data from the United Kingdom is current through April 2019. All of the data comes from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, except for the categories Manufacturer Parent Company and Product Classification.
The Parent Company and the Product Classification were added by ICIJ.
The parent company information is based on 2017 public records. The device classification information comes from FDA’s Product Classification by Review Panel, based on matches of recall data from the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

The povidone-iodine contained in the disconnect caps of these peritoneal dialysis sets has the potential to be a contributing factor to thyroid changes such as hypothyroidism. Patients more likely to be affected are infants and children with smaller peritoneal fill volumes, where higher dialysate concentrations of iodine can result.