{"id":12420,"date":"2018-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/01\/second-hypertension-drug-recalled-due-to-contamination\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T16:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:01:21","slug":"second-hypertension-drug-recalled-due-to-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/01\/second-hypertension-drug-recalled-due-to-contamination\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Hypertension Drug Recalled Due to Contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Some lots of irbesartan being recalled due to contamination with suspected carcinogen<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Nov. 1, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Another hypertension drug is being recalled due to contamination that could pose a cancer risk, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.<\/p>\n<p>Certain lots of irbesartan are being recalled by SciGen because they contain an industrial chemical that is a suspected carcinogen, <i>CNN<\/i> reported. The recalled drugs have &#8220;Westminster Pharmaceuticals&#8221; and &#8220;GSMS Inc.&#8221; on the label.<\/p>\n<p>Another heart drug, valsartan, was recalled recently due to contamination with possible cancer-causing chemicals, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Not all medicines that contain valsartan or irbesartan are being recalled. The new recall covers only about 1 percent of irbesartan drug products available in the United States, according to the FDA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/31\/health\/fda-recall-heart-drug-irbesartan-bn\/index.html\" target=\"_new\"><i>CNN<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/Safety\/Recalls\/ucm624593.htm\" target=\"_new\">FDA Recall Alert<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some lots of irbesartan being recalled due to contamination with suspected carcinogen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-12420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}