Notice to Veterans that take BP meds
Unfortunately, the VA pharmacy in some areas has distributed a BP med that is under recall ... If you take Valsartan (or it's derivatives) go to NY Times and read the story - last Friday article or...
Forum Discussion
Bumpyroad wrote:
One problem with this thread is that folks are confusing the product manufacturer and the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturer. evidently the manufacturer of the API is the one that changed manufacturing methods/processes and caused this impurity to exist. this would of course be in violation of the New Drug Application requirements.
It is theoretically possible that that supplier in India, and others, actually obtain the API from the chinese firm.
and knowing the manufacturer of the finished drug product gives you no knowledge as to who manufactured the API.
bumpy
Then again it's totally possible that the Indian company is manufacturing the API itself which they could do cheaply enough.
Until they find out otherwise I'm not going to worry myself to death about it.
Or maybe I should have a panic attack because they might have gotten it from China and two other medications that I'm taking were manufactured in India.
