{"id":25590,"date":"2019-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/24\/more-blood-pressure-drugs-recalled\/"},"modified":"2019-09-25T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T16:10:06","slug":"more-blood-pressure-drugs-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/24\/more-blood-pressure-drugs-recalled\/","title":{"rendered":"More Blood Pressure Drugs Recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Some lots of losartan contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical N-methylnitrosobutyric acid<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Sept. 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The recall of the commonly prescribed blood pressure drug losartan has been expanded once again to include an additional five lots.<\/p>\n<p>The drug, made by Torrent Pharmaceuticals, has been recalled because some lots are contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical N-methylnitrosobutyric acid, according to a company press release.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs added to the recall include lots of Losartan Potassium Tablets, USP, and Losartan Potassium\/Hydrochlorothiazide Tablets, USP, all of which have amounts of the contaminant that exceed FDA-recommended levels.<\/p>\n<p>This recall is the fifth for losartan that Torrent has announced this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/safety\/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts\/updated-torrent-pharmaceuticals-limited-expands-voluntary-nationwide-recall-losartan-potassium-0\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some lots of losartan contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical N-methylnitrosobutyric acid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-25590","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\/25590","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=25590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}