{"id":252808,"date":"2025-10-31T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252808\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:31:08","slug":"fda-reports-recall-of-blood-pressure-medication-containing-a-potential-carcinogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252808\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA reports recall of blood pressure medication containing a potential carcinogen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says drug makers have recalled more than a half-million bottles of the blood pressure medication prazosin hydrochloride over concerns it may include a cancer-causing chemical. <\/p>\n

New Jersey-based Teva Pharmaceuticals USA and drugs distributor Amerisource Health Services issued voluntary nationwide recalls<\/a> earlier this month of more than 580,000 bottles of various strengths of prazosine capsules, according to the FDA. <\/p>\n

Doctors prescribe prazosin, which relaxes blood vessels, to help lower blood pressure. It also is sometimes prescribed for nightmares and other sleep disturbances caused by post-traumatic stress disorder. <\/p>\n

The FDA said in enforcement orders<\/a> posted online that it has given the affected lots of the drug a Class II risk classification because some of the recalled medication may have nitrosamine impurities that are considered potentially cancer causing. <\/p>\n

According to the FDA, N-nitrosamine impurities<\/a> are a class of potentially cancer-causing chemicals that can form during manufacture or storage of a drug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says drug makers have recalled more than a half-million bottles of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,1617,141466,482,137,490,22194,6021,1346],"class_list":["post-252808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cancer","tag-drug-recalls","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-product-recalls","tag-u-s-food-and-drug-administration","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}