miércoles, 9 de agosto de 2017

FDA advises health care professionals and patients not to use any liquid drug products manufactured by PharmaTech and distributed by Rugby Laboratories and possibly other companies - Drug Information Update

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FDA is advising health care professionals and patients not to use any liquid product manufactured by PharmaTech LLC, Davie, Florida, due to Burkholderia cepacia contamination and the potential for severe patient infection.
Rugby Laboratories, Livonia, Michigan, announced a voluntary recall on August 3, 2017, of two such products – Diocto Liquid and Diocto Syrup, both oral liquid docusate products – manufactured by PharmaTech.
Additional liquid drug products manufactured by PharmaTech might also be affected. Such products might have been labeled and distributed by Rugby and other companies. Any company that purchased liquid products manufactured by PharmaTech should immediately quarantine material under their control and contact the local FDA pharmaceutical recall coordinator.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory testing of PharmaTech’s oral liquid docusate detected a strain of B. cepacia, bacteria linked to recent patient infections. Therefore, FDA recommends health care professionals and patients not use PharmaTech’s liquid drug products.
Patients, pharmacies, and health care facilities should immediately stop using and dispensing all liquid products manufactured by PharmaTech. It might be difficult to determine the manufacturer because these liquid products are not labeled with a PharmaTech label. FDA advises health care facilities and pharmacies that think they might have liquid PharmaTech drug products, especially oral liquid docusate drug products, to check with their supplier to determine the identity of the manufacturer.
For more information, please visit: PharmaTech.

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