Urgent recall on common painkillers over fears people could overdose - Metro.co.uk

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) urged anyone who has a packet of Zentiva Pharma UK Ltd Co-codamol 30/500 Effervescent Tablets with batch number 1K10121 to return them to their pharmacy to be replaced.

The MHRA said the batch was found to potentially have too little of the active ingredients, codeine phosphate and paracetamol, meaning the medicine would not work as it should.

The MHRA issued a Class 1 National Patient Safety Alert on Wednesday, advising all healthcare professionals to ‘stop supplying the affected batch immediately, quarantine all remaining stock and return it to their supplier’.

‘It is vitally important that people urgently check their packs of Zentiva Pharma UK Ltd Co-codamol 30/500 Effervescent Tablets and if the batch number corresponds to 1K10121, they should stop using them and return them to their pharmacy for a replacement immediately.