{"id":253153,"date":"2025-10-31T12:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253153\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:07:10","slug":"fda-says-drug-makers-have-recalled-a-blood-pressure-medicine-tainted-with-a-cancer-causing-chemical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253153\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA says drug makers have recalled a blood pressure medicine tainted with a cancer-causing chemical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New Jersey-based Teva Pharmaceuticals USA and drugs distributor Amerisource Health Services issued voluntary nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/ires\/?Product=216677\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:recalls;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">recalls<\/a> earlier this month of more than 580,000 bottles of various strengths of prazosine capsules, according to the FDA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The FDA said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/ires\/?Product=216512\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:enforcement orders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the FDA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/regulatory-information\/search-fda-guidance-documents\/control-nitrosamine-impurities-human-drugs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:N-nitrosamine impurities;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[149795,64,63,7548,149794,149796,6202,137,490,149797],"class_list":["post-253153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-amerisource-health-services","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blood-pressure","tag-cancer-causing","tag-drug-makers","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-teva-pharmaceuticals-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253153","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=253153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}