{"id":257185,"date":"2025-11-02T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257185\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:26:11","slug":"fda-says-drugmakers-have-recalled-a-blood-pressure-medicine-tainted-with-a-cancer-causing-chemical-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257185\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA says drugmakers have recalled a blood pressure medicine tainted with a cancer-causing chemical | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says drugmakers 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>New Jersey-based Teva Pharmaceuticals USA and drugs distributor Amerisource Health Services issued voluntary nationwide\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/ires\/?Product=216677\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recalls<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month of more than 580,000 bottles of various strengths of prazosine capsules, according to the FDA.<\/p>\n<p>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>The FDA said in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/ires\/?Product=216512\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">enforcement orders<\/a>\u00a0posted 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>According to the FDA,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/regulatory-information\/search-fda-guidance-documents\/control-nitrosamine-impurities-human-drugs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">N-nitrosamine impurities<\/a>\u00a0are a class of potentially cancer-causing chemicals that can form during manufacture or storage of a drug.<\/p>\n<p>Download the FOX13 Memphis app to receive alerts from breaking news in your neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trending stories:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says drugmakers have recalled more than a half-million bottles of the blood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2768,8431,119384,119386,119390,49,48,7714,119388,119389,2714,119255,119387,84,377,119385,12538],"class_list":["post-257185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-blood","tag-blood-pressure","tag-blood-pressure-medicine","tag-blood-pressure-meds-recalled","tag-blood-pressure-meds-recalled-cancer-cancer-causing-chemical","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cancer","tag-cancer-causing-chemical-in-meds","tag-cancer-causing-meds-recalled","tag-fda","tag-fda-recall","tag-fda-recall-meds","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-medicine-recalled","tag-recall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}