The Food and Drug Administration has announced that it is updating the recall on large sized versions of the Bard Composix Kugel Mesh hernia patch to a Class 1 recall. Davol Inc.—the manufacturer of the Kugel hernia patch—has issued three separate hernia patch recalls since December 2005 due to reports that the device could break after it is implanted, leading to serious and potentially deadly hernia patch side effects.