Recall召回
A recall is a corrective or removal action taken by a manufacturer or distributor to address a marketed product that is defective, potentially harmful, or noncompliant with applicable requirements. In life science documentation, the term appears in field safety notifications, customer letters, regulatory correspondence, and quality records that must explain the product issue, risk, and required actions without any ambiguity.
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Where this term appears
Recall translations occur in urgent regulatory communications, field safety notices, customer letters, and quality system records. Projects are often high-priority because the text must reach patients, pharmacies, and regulators quickly. Translators must adapt product names, lot numbers, distribution dates, and return instructions without changing the risk level or required actions.
Translation checks
One serious error is mistranslating the action level—for example, turning 'destroy' into 'return to pharmacy' or omitting a patient instruction. Ambiguous lot or date information can also delay product removal. Because recall documents have regulatory consequences, inconsistency with approved product names or national requirements can reduce the effectiveness of the notice and create compliance risk.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Check intended use, warnings, document versions and approved terminology with the project team. Translation supports documentation; it does not establish product approval or regulatory acceptance.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
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