On Monday, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety issued a recall order for a batch of Medica Korea’s Zatidine Capsule 150mg (Nizatidine) and Hutecs Korea Pharmaceutical’s Acitidine Capsule.
Enforcement Report - Week of May 6, 2020
Health Canada Issues Recall of Pendopharm Division of Pharmascience`s AXID
After a carcinogen scare late last year, the FDA recently opted to yank the heartburn drug Zantac and its generics off U.S. shelves. Now, Amneal Pharmaceutical will pull several lots of one of its heartburn meds off the market on fears the same probable carcinogen may have tainted its supply.
Amneal Pharmaceuticals,Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Nizatidine Oral Solution
Enforcement Report - Week of January 29, 2020
The recall of products due to NDMA contamination continues, with a new medication, nizatidine, now thought to be affected by the probable carcinogen.
Mylan Initiates Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Three Lots of Nizatidine Capsules
Solara Active Pharma Sciences has said it has come to know that US-based Mylan Pharmaceuticals has initiated a voluntary recall of three lots of Nizatidine Capsules USP (150-mg and 300-mg strengths) due to detected trace amounts of impurity N nitrosodimethylamine. Mylan also indicated that the recall is voluntary and it has not received any reports of adverse events related to these batches to date. Solara Active is in the process of collecting corresponding lots of API from Mylan to carry out its internal investigation. The overall sales of this API to the US market comprise less than 0.1 per cent of total revenues, it further said. Shares of Solara Active closed 0.50 per cent higher at ?422.65 on the BSE.
Digital change may have come late to pharma, but suddenly, it's all the rage. That doesn't mean drugmakers should plunge right into the next trendy tech, though, Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson says.