Check your medicine cabinets.<\/p>\n
More than 11,100 bottles of a type of blood pressure medication sold under the brand name Ziac are being recalled due to cross-contamination with other medications, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to the FDA<\/a>, the New Jersey-based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals recalled 11,136 bottles of bisoprolol fumarate and hydrochlorothiazide tablets because they had \u201ctraces of ezetimibe (a drug used to treat high cholesterol).\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n No adverse effects have been reported to date.<\/p>\n READ MORE: FDA recalls 580K bottles of this blood pressure medication: Is your medicine on the list?<\/a><\/p>\n Here\u2019s what you need to know about the recalled tablets \u2014 and what you should do if you have the recalled medication.<\/p>\n What Ziac tablets were subject to the recall?<\/p>\n According to the FDA<\/a>, the affected Ziac tablets came in 2.5 mg and 6.25 mg doses and were packaged in the following amounts:<\/p>\n 30-count bottles NDC 68462-878-30<\/p>\n 100-count bottle NDC-68462-878-01 <\/p>\n 500-count bottles NDC68462-878-05<\/p>\n The lot numbers of the affected medications include:<\/p>\n Lot No. 17232401, exp 11\/2025<\/p>\n Lot No. 17240974, exp 05\/2026 <\/p>\n Lot No. 17232401, exp 11\/2025<\/p>\n Lot No. 17240974, exp 05\/2026 <\/p>\n Lot No. 17232401, exp 11\/2025<\/p>\n Lot No. 17240974, exp 05\/2026<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The FDA classified this recall as a Class III recall<\/a> on Dec. 1, after it initially announced the recall on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n The FDA defines a Class III recall<\/a> of a product as something that is \u201cis not likely to cause adverse health consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n If people believe they have the recalled Ziac tablets in their medicine cabinets, they should contact a health care provider before taking any further doses of the medication.<\/p>\n Other Recalls To Check Out<\/p>\n Read the original article on NJ.com<\/a>. Add NJ.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Check your medicine cabinets. More than 11,100 bottles of a type of blood pressure medication sold under the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[75476,49,48,7453,146541,84,392,4512,148203,31663],"class_list":["post-337856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-blood-pressure-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-glenmark-pharmaceuticals","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-medications","tag-medicine-cabinets","tag-tablets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337856","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=337856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}