Toward the end of 2019, consumers in Ohio and elsewhere learned that a popular medication some have taken for decades contained a human carcinogen that could give them a variety of cancers. Since Sept. 2019, numerous pharmaceutical companies have voluntarily...
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Understanding why drug recalls happen
The controversy surrounding Zantac and other medications containing ranitidine has brought up numerous questions from many consumers across the country and here in Ohio. Drug recalls happen often for a variety of reasons, but people may not have paid much attention to...
FDA approval doesn’t guarantee a medication is safe
Over the last year or so, some highly popular medications for acid reflux, high blood pressure and diabetes have been recalled. Potential safety concerns have also prompted investigations by the Food and Drug Administration. The recent recalls by...
Can the Zantac recall save others from harm?
Drugs are taken off the market all the time, but sometimes, the medication is so popular that it causes authorities to take a look elsewhere. Technically, the recent surge in testing of medications for contaminants started with popular blood pressure medications, but...
Zantac wasn’t the first ranitidine drug to be recalled
When the Food and Drug Administration and the maker of Zantac announced its recall of the popular over-the-counter acid reducing medication, it was everywhere in the media around the country and here in Ohio. However, Zantac was not the first medication recalled....
Food and Drug Administration expands NDMA testing requirements
As the ranitidine recall situation continues to unfold across the country and here in Ohio, manufacturers, distributors and sellers are scrambling to get products off the shelves. In the meantime, the scientific community is attempting to figure out just how...
What NDMA is and what overexposure looks like
What began as a recall of heart failure and blood pressure medications continues to expand to other popular medications taken for heartburn by numerous people across the country. To this point, most Ohio residents have heard about the recall of Zantac and its generic...
Did the FDA miss the potential harm from ranitidine?
Numerous countries decided to simply discontinue the manufacturing, distribution and selling of Zantac and its generic equivalents off the market. Here in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration decided to continue testing and determining...
Food and Drug Administration issues recall of dietary supplement
Many Ohio residents take dietary supplements for a variety of reasons. Part of the problem with the supplements is that they do not undergo testing necessarily undergo the same scrutiny by the Food and Drug Administration as prescribed medications do, which means they...
FDA says an OTC heartburn medication could cause cancer
If you are like many other heartburn sufferers here in Ohio, you probably take an over the counter medication for relief. If your medication of choice happens to be Zantac, whose generic version is called Ranitidine, the Food and Drug Administration says you could end...