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GSK Worthing

GSK recalls 427,000 antibiotics after contamination scare

September 15, 2015
Manufacturing and Production Bactroban, FDA, GSK, manufacturing, product recalls, production, recalls

GlaxoSmithKline has had to recall more than 427,000 tubes of creams and ointments due to potential penicillin cross-contamination and the …

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Allergan

Allergan recalls eye drugs after complaints of blurred vision

August 25, 2015
Manufacturing and Production Allergan, manufacturing, product recalls, production, recalls

Allergan has issued a recall for batches of eye ointments sold in the US, after customers complained of foreign bodies …

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Actavis contraceptives recalled after packaging errors

July 9, 2015
Manufacturing and Production Actavis, FDA, manufacturing, packaging, product recall, production, recalls

Actavis is voluntarily recalling more than half a million boxes of contraceptive pills in the United States due to problems …

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J&J’s prescription drugs unit hit by recall

September 17, 2013
Manufacturing and Production J&J, JJ, Risperdal, Tylenol, recalls

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Nurofen Plus recall expanded

August 31, 2011
Sales and Marketing MHRA, Nurofen, recalls

Last week’s recall of Reckitt Benckiser’s painkiller product Nurofen Plus has been expanded after two additional cases emerged where powerful …

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Tylenol recall

J&J’s latest recall put down to new factor

August 19, 2011
Manufacturing and Production J&J, JJ, Tylenol, recalls

Yet another Johnson & Johnson recall has been announced, but this time the perpetrator doesn’t feature among the ‘usual suspects’. …

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Augmentin tablets

Augmentin recall expanded on contamination fears

July 26, 2011
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Augmentin, GSK, recalls

GlaxoSmithKline has been drawn further into concerns about contamination of pharmaceuticals, foods and beverages with plasticiser compounds, after authorities in …

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Smelly Risperdal adds to J&J’s recall tally

June 20, 2011
Manufacturing and Production John Lechleiter, pharma manufacturing news, recalls

Johnson & Johnson continues to be plagued by product recalls, with the latest involving two lots of its schizophrenia drug …

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HIV drug Prezista recalled on TBA contamination

May 17, 2011
Manufacturing and Production HIV, Johnson & Johnson, Prezista, manufacturing and production, recalls

Johnson & Johnson has recalled 11,700 bottles of its HIV treatment Prezista after consumer reports of a mouldy smell caused …

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TBA contamination prompts Topamax recall

April 18, 2011
Manufacturing and Production Johnson and Johnson, recalls

Another Johnson & Johnson business unit has decided to recall medicines because of a mouldy smell thought to be caused …

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Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol

J&J reorganises McNeil as recalls keep coming

April 5, 2011
Manufacturing and Production J&J, JJ, Johnson & Johnson, McNeil, TBA, TCA, Tylenol, manufacturing compliance, pharma manufacturing, recalls, tribromoanisole, trichloroanisole

Johnson & Johnson has announced a major reworking of its troubled McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit, just as quality problems force …

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J&J charged with US manufacturing violations

March 15, 2011
Manufacturing and Production J&J, JJ, Johnson and Johnson, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, McNeil Fort Washington, McNeil recall, Motrin recall, manufacturing compliance, pharma manufacturing, recalls

Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare has been officially charged with manufacturing and distributing drugs in violation of federal …

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Daiichi recalls contaminated paediatric vaccines

March 15, 2011
Manufacturing and Production ActHIB, Daiichi Sankyo, manufacturing compliance, padiatric vaccine recall, recalls, vaccines

Japanese drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo has recalled around 1.3 million doses of the paediatric vaccine ActHIB, manufactured by Sanofi-Aventis, because of …

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More US recalls as bill seeks greater FDA powers

January 10, 2011
Manufacturing and Production Centocor Ortho Biotech, Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, FDA, RiteDose Corp, Sandoz, Sigma-tau Pharmasource, Teva Pharmaceuticals, manufacturing compliance, recalls

Product recalls continue to make headlines in the pharmaceutical sector, with several new incidents either side of the New Year …

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Pfizer expands Lipitor recall

December 24, 2010
Manufacturing and Production Lipitor, Pfizer, manufacturing compliance, recalls

Pfizer has been forced to recall another 19,000 bottles of its cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor in the US after consumers reported …

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