{"id":35209,"date":"2020-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/metformin-recalled-due-to-potential-cancer-causing-chemical\/"},"modified":"2020-06-01T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:10:10","slug":"metformin-recalled-due-to-potential-cancer-causing-chemical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/metformin-recalled-due-to-potential-cancer-causing-chemical\/","title":{"rendered":"Metformin Recalled Due to Potential Cancer-Causing Chemical"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Recall is for all lots of metformin hydrochloride extended-release tablets 500 mg from Apotex<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, May 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A recall of the widely used diabetes drug metformin was announced by drug maker Apotex due to possible high levels of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), which is believed to cause cancer in people.<\/p>\n<p>The recall for all lots of metformin hydrochloride extended-release tablets 500 mg from Apotex comes after one lot tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had higher NDMA levels than allowed by the FDA.<\/p>\n<p>NDMA is an environmental contaminant that is found in water and foods, including meats, dairy products, and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>NDMA contamination triggered numerous recalls of widely used heart medicines last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/safety\/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts\/apotex-corp-issues-voluntary-nationwide-recall-metformin-hydrochloride-extended-release-tablets\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recall is for all lots of metformin hydrochloride extended-release tablets 500 mg from Apotex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-35209","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\/35209","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=35209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}