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A widespread recall of common blood pressure and heart failure medications has been expanded to include more drugs containing losartan. The recall is due to an "impurity" that is classified as a potential human carcinogen.
The impurity, N-Nitroso-N-methyl-4-aminobutyric acid or NMBA, is also classified as a known animal carcinogen, the US Food And Drug Administration noted in a news release about the recall Friday.
Camber Pharmaceuticals Inc. voluntarily recalled 87 lots of losartan tablets in the United States on Thursday. The recalled tablets, made by Hetero Labs Ltd. In India and distributed by Camber Pharmaceuticals, were found to contain trace amounts of the impurity.
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Starting in July, separate lots of ARB blood pressure and heart failure medications from various companies were recalled around the world, including in the United States, due to containing similar impurities that are potential or suspected human carcinogens: N-nitrosodimethylamine or NDMA and N-nitrosodiethylamine or NDEA.
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Now, the FDA is "deeply concerned" about the presence of a third impurity in certain ARB medications, Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said in the news release. NMBA had not been found in previously recalled ARB products, but the FDA continues its investigations.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/01/health/losartan-recall-bn/index.html
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Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)The Losartan that I have previously read about was manufactured by Torrent. That's what my pharmacy notified me of.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I would be concerned about other drugs and contaminants,too.
TheBlackAdder
(28,230 posts).
People think they are getting drugs made in the EU, when they could be from Pakistan, India or China.
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Ilsa
(61,707 posts)Thursday, when the news about the Sandoz manufacturing recall came out, I checked a family member's medication (I fill her med box every Saturday) and the internet, and she was in the clear.
Because you posted this OP, I checked the news again and called her pharmacy. Turns out she takes the drug made by Camber. I called her mail order pharmacy, and she's been taking this Rx from tainted lots since the middle of last year! I'll call her doctor on Monday to get new orders for either new prescriptions or reorders from mail order pharmacy. I'll be calling Camber, too.
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)I got the recall notice on my prescription when I had 2 of 90 pills left. Thanks, Hetero Labs Ltd.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)Losartan products under recall - Updated March 1, 2019
https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DrugSafety/UCM628993.pdf
Mine is from Micro Labs so hopefully it is OK.