REUTERS: U.S. health regulators said on Friday a third cancer-causing toxin was found in some blood pressure pills recalled by India's Hetero ...
REUTERS: U.S. health regulators said on Friday a third cancer-causing toxin was found in some blood pressure pills recalled by India's Hetero Labs Ltd a day earlier, adding to a global recall of commonly used drugs to treat hypertension.
Most recently, the U.S. unit of Indian generic drugmaker Aurobindo Pharma Ltd expanded the recall of its hypertension medicines containing valsartan to 38 more lots due to the presence of probable carcinogen, N-nitrosodiethylamine , the FDA said https://bit.ly/2Xq3ezI on Friday. The drugs, including losartan, belong to a class of widely used medicines for treating high blood pressure called angiotensin II receptor blockers, or ARBs. Some generic versions of other ARBs, such as valsartan and irbesartan, have also been recalled.The FDA said increased risk of cancer in patients exposed to the new impurity, NMBA, appeared to be the same as those exposed to NDMA, but less than the risk from NDEA.
Since then, generic drugmakers such as Mylan NV, Teva Pharmaceutical and Novartis' Sandoz have recalled products containing the tainted ingredients.
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