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Improper Sealing Prompts Bumble Bee Foods to Recall Canned Tuna

Posted on 11 March 2013. Tags: bumble bee tuna, chunk light tuna, chunk white albacore, FDA, food and drug administration, food safety, product recall, product safety

Bumble Bee Foods issued a voluntary recall for five-ounce cans of two of its tuna products – Chunk White Albacore and Chunk Light Tuna – on Wednesday, March 6. The recall was issued because the seals on these products do not meet the company’s standards. According to Bumble Bee, the seals on some Chunk White […]

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FDA Recalls Medication Used to Treat a Virus in AIDS Patients

Posted on 20 February 2013. Tags: aids, cmv retinitus, defective medication, FDA, food and drug administration, gilead science, medical recall, product safety, vistide, voluntary recall

MedPage Today (2/19, Gever) reports that the Food and Drug Administration announced that Gilead Sciences has issued a voluntary recall for “one lot of cidofovir for intravenous infusion (Vistide),” which is used to treat cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis in patients with AIDS, because of some vials contain an unknown particulate. The recall “involves lot number B120217A, with an expiration […]

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FDA Warns Against Online Flu Treatment Purchases

Posted on 20 February 2013. Tags: anti flu products, berkley body immune flu prevention, defective medication, FDA, flu treatment, food and drug administration, influenza, medication safety, online flu products, tamiflu, the flu

The Wall Street Journal (2/16, A2, Rockoff, Subscription Publication) reported that the Food and Drug Administration is warning patients to avoid so-called “generic Tamiflu” and other unapproved flu treatment products. The Journal quotes from an FDA Voice blog in which the agency’s National Health Fraud Coordinator Gary Coody said, “We want people to take effective preventive measures against […]

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