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thewayneThe company is going bankrupt, and apparently their QC inspection department left early. According to the release from the trustee, "The discontinuation of the Quality program would result in the company’s inability to assure that products meet the identity, strength, quality, and purity characteristics that they are purported or represented to possess which render the products adulterated. While specific risks to patients, from use of these adulterated products, cannot always be identified or assessed, it is also not possible to rule out patient risks resulting from the use of such products. Akorn has not received any reports of adverse events related to this recall."
Obviously, it's hard to know who makes your pills if they don't come in the maker's bottles. I had two or three meds on this list: nasal inhalers and lidocaine/prilocaine cream. The inhalers were made by another company, but I scored on the cream. Two tubes, one unopened. Fortunately I had an add'l tube made by someone else, so throwing away the two isn't a big deal.
Walgreens gave me a call about the recall, but they wouldn't name any meds with the robocall, insisting I call them back. Personally, I'd prefer to look up what's going on.
This is twice in a year that a pharma bankruptcy has hit me. I used to nebulize albuterol, and the only company that makes the neb compound vanished in a bankruptcy and no one has yet stepped into that gap.
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/update-akorn-issues-voluntary-nationwide-recall-various-human-and-animal-drug-products-within-expiry
Obviously, it's hard to know who makes your pills if they don't come in the maker's bottles. I had two or three meds on this list: nasal inhalers and lidocaine/prilocaine cream. The inhalers were made by another company, but I scored on the cream. Two tubes, one unopened. Fortunately I had an add'l tube made by someone else, so throwing away the two isn't a big deal.
Walgreens gave me a call about the recall, but they wouldn't name any meds with the robocall, insisting I call them back. Personally, I'd prefer to look up what's going on.
This is twice in a year that a pharma bankruptcy has hit me. I used to nebulize albuterol, and the only company that makes the neb compound vanished in a bankruptcy and no one has yet stepped into that gap.
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/update-akorn-issues-voluntary-nationwide-recall-various-human-and-animal-drug-products-within-expiry
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Date: 2023-07-05 12:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-05 06:11 am (UTC)The FDA list of medicine recalls is a little scary!
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Date: 2023-07-05 01:30 am (UTC)Basically they are monopolies. :o
And when one screws up, the country suffers.
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2023-07-05 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-05 06:12 am (UTC)Cancer centers are getting hit really hard, three core chemotherapy drugs are in very short supply.
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Date: 2023-07-07 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-06 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-07 01:44 am (UTC)I expect they'll get gobbled up by a larger fish. We'll see. A lot of small pharma makers have gone bust lately, sadly.