Heparin contamination Tagged Articles
Recalled heparin still appearing in hospitals, pharmacies
Just because a drug has been recalled doesn’t mean that it has been eliminated from pharmacy and hospital inventory. According to the Associated Press/San Jose (California) Mercury Sun, during an investigation by the California Board of Pharmacy, heparin, which was
French Lovenox brand heparin recall
There has been yet another report of heparin being pulled off the market for fear it may harm people. This week, French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis recalled the remaining batches of its heparin medicine distributed before May 2008, Lovenox, based on a
China-made products cause safety concern
Heparin isn’t the only China-made product that has turned up contaminated and, in many cases, harmed others. Last March, a contaminant was found in batches of Heparin, supplied to Baxter International by its Chinese plant. The over-sulfated chondrotin sulfate in
APP ok to make heparin in Puerto Rico
This week APP Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Schaumberg, Ill., announced it has gotten FDA approval to manufacture heparin at its Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, facility. The facility will manufacture three product codes of heparin sodium injection, USP.
synthetic heparin in development
Robert Linhardt, a scientist at Troy, New York-based Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is leading a team of researchers who have developed a fully synthetic version of the blood thinner heparin. While the group has only produced a few milligrams of the
Baxter expands heparin recall
In February, Baxter International Inc. announced it would expand its recall of heparin sodium injection products. In January, 2008, the company recalled nine lots of a heparin product as a result of reports of adverse patient reactions. It suspended production
