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Check Your Medicine Cabinet: Blood Pressure Medications Recalled Over Potential Cancer-Causing Ingredients - Yahoo Lifestyle

Check Your Medicine Cabinet: Blood Pressure Medications Recalled Over Potential Cancer-Causing Ingredients - Yahoo Lifestyle

Check Your Medicine Cabinet: Blood Pressure Medications Recalled Over Potential Cancer-Causing Ingredients - Yahoo Lifestyle
Oct 25, 2021 50 secs

Lupin Pharmaceuticals announced a voluntary recall of all of its Irbesartan tablets and Irbesartan and Hydrochlorothiazide tablets, many of which could contain high levels of a cancer-causing impurity.

The recall was issued last week after testing revealed that several batches of both medications, which are used to lower blood pressure, exceeded acceptable levels of the impurity N-nitrosoirbesartan, a probable human carcinogen—meaning it could cause cancer, based on laboratory testing, the FDA explains.

“Out of an abundance of caution,” the FDA notice reads, Lupin is recalling all batches of Irbesartan tablets (including 75mg, 150mg and300 mg sizes in 30- and 90-count bottles) and all batches of the drug Irbesartan and Hydrochlorothiazide tablets (including 150mg/12.5mg and 300mg/12.5mg sizes in 30- and 90-count bottles) in the United States.

Between October 8, 2018 (the earliest date the affected tablets were distributed) and September 30, 2021, Lupin received four reports of illness from Irbesartan and zero from Irbesartan and Hydrochlorothiazide; none “appear to relate to this issue,” per the FDA.

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