{"id":25819,"date":"2019-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/cvs-halts-sales-of-otc-zantac\/"},"modified":"2019-10-01T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:10:08","slug":"cvs-halts-sales-of-otc-zantac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/cvs-halts-sales-of-otc-zantac\/","title":{"rendered":"CVS Halts Sales of OTC Zantac"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tests have found low levels of the nitrosamine impurity NDMA in some ranitidine products<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, Sept. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; CVS is the latest drugstore chain to stop selling over-the-counter Zantac (ranitidine), as well as the store&#8217;s own generic version of the heartburn medicine, because of contamination with a known carcinogen.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers earlier in September not to use prescription and over-the-counter versions of Zantac, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>CVS says it will take back any Zantac products and refund the money. In the meantime, CVS continues to sell other heartburn medications.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary tests have found low levels of the nitrosamine impurity N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in some ranitidine products. NDMA has been found in many brands of blood pressure and heart failure medicines during the past year and has led to recalls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/aa9ab060c2f1437cb692a9177f72e74f\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/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>Tests have found low levels of the nitrosamine impurity NDMA in some ranitidine products<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-25819","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\/25819","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=25819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}