{"id":5996,"date":"2018-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/30\/birth-control-pills-recalled-over-potential-pregnancy-risk\/"},"modified":"2018-05-31T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:10:11","slug":"birth-control-pills-recalled-over-potential-pregnancy-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/30\/birth-control-pills-recalled-over-potential-pregnancy-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth Control Pills Recalled Over Potential Pregnancy Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Active capsules and inactive placebos may have been packaged out of order<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, May 30, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Almost 170,000 birth control pill packs are being recalled over a manufacturing error that could lead to unplanned pregnancy, maker Allergan says.<\/p>\n<p>Taytulla physician sample packs include active capsules and inactive placebos that are designed to be taken in a certain order. The recalled packs may have been packaged out of order, so that a person who expected to take an active capsule may actually take a placebo, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Allergan said the error was isolated to a single pack, but the entire lot was recalled as a precaution. The packs are marked with lot number 5620706 and an expiration date of May 2019, <i>CBS News<\/i> said. The network reported Allergan would notify users by letter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If patients have concerns regarding the possibility of an unintended pregnancy, they should consult their physician,&#8221; Allergan said in a recall statement posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/Safety\/Recalls\/ucm609044.htm\" target=\"_new\">More Information<\/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>Active capsules and inactive placebos may have been packaged out of order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-5996","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\/5996","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=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}