Archive for the ‘Recalls’ Category
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Pinholes may be at the root of a recall issued in February of nearly a thousand medical device products.
According to FDA, Teleflex Inc. offered an update on the Arrow International Inc. recall of all lots of its Arrow custom intravenous administration products (IV tubing sets and accessories) and certain Arrow ...
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
McNeil Healthcare's 60-million-bottle recall shows that your responsibilities extend far beyond the package's walls. Since 2008, McNeil has received odor complaints regarding certain Tylenol products. In 2009, McNeil began recalling bottled OTC products after discovering that packaging may have been contaminated with a pallet pesticide. The recall now numbers 60 ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
FDA sent two warning letters this week to pharmaceutical manufacturing locations in China regarding GMP violations in Heparin production. One went to Qingdao Jiulong Biopharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. and the other to Shanghai No. 1 Biochemical & Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. for quality issues as well as discrepencies in shipping information. ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Since when is peanut butter a high-risk product? That was the breaking news alert I got on my cell phone the other day, and I haven't deleted it. It is a reminder that health risks loom in almost every corner of our lives, even the cupboard.
Am I being dramatic? A ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
"The recall system is broke and needs fixing," reports the California State Board of Pharmacy's Enforcement Committee. In October the board began discussing opportunities for recall procedure improvements with hospital pharmacists. In late spring, the board found 94 hospital pharmacies in California that still stocked recalled heparin.
But will pharmacists alone have the ...
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