It also promised to respond to reports of malfunctions as quickly as possible.
Over the last five years, according to a new agency report, there have been 68 recalls and more than 22,000 reports of malfunctioning devices.
In February, the F.D.A. said it had received 260 reports of malfunctions related to health information technology "with the potential for patient harm," including 44 reported injuries and six reported deaths in 2008 and 2009.
The company cited 733 reports of malfunctioning units.
This morning Samsung announced that it was issuing a voluntary recall to address some 700-plus reports of malfunctioning top-loading washing machines, including one very unfortunate case of a broken jaw.
There was that drawn out Galaxy Note incident, which entailed two recalls and a on-going apology parade, coupled with the subsequent recall of 2.8 million washing machines over reports of malfunctions and injuries, including a broken jaw.
China has seen repeated reports of malfunctioning elevators and escalators killing or injuring people.
In fact, we have not received any reports of equipment malfunction since this technology was put into place in 2002.
Over the last eight years, the FDA has received a staggering 45,000 individual reports of AED malfunction, covering more than one in fifty of the approximately 2m AEDs deployed.
Mr. Yaeger also said the company had no other reports of such malfunctions, but "our engineers are working on a solution to help prevent this from occurring".
In Japan, The Times examined all the reports of Toyota malfunctions brought to the transport ministry since 2001, about 3,700 in all, and, for comparison, all comparable reports on Honda over the same period, about 2,400.
