{"id":552609,"date":"2026-03-22T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552609\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:16:08","slug":"nearly-90000-bottles-of-childrens-liquid-pain-medication-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552609\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 90,000 bottles of children\u2019s liquid pain medication recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Nearly 90,000 bottles of a children\u2019s pain reliever have been recalled due to reports of black specs and other contaminants, according to federal regulators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Food and Drug Administration posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/ires\/index.cfm?Product=218947\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an online notice<\/a> about the recall of Taro Pharmaceuticals\u2019 Children\u2019s Ibuprofen Oral Suspension. The company\u2019s website states that the product comes in a berry-flavored solution and is recommended for children ages 2 to 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The FDA notice states that the recall was launched earlier this month after customers reported \u201ca gel-like mass and black particles in the product.\u201d Agency regulators categorized the action as one in which the risk of serious injury or health consequences to consumers is \u201cremote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The medication was manufactured in India by Strides Pharma Inc., which produces generic and over-the-counter medicines for firms in the U.S. and many other countries. Strides initiated the recall, according to the FDA notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Neither Strides nor Taro Pharmaceuticals immediately responded to requests for comment Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Nearly 90,000 bottles of a children\u2019s pain reliever have been recalled due to reports of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,214466,214470,2714,7453,84,1057,214464,214469,214471,214467,377,214468,214465,2393],"class_list":["post-552609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-childrens-ibuprofen","tag-childrens-liquid-medicine","tag-fda","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-health","tag-ibuprofen","tag-ibuprofen-recall","tag-liquid-ibuprofen-recall","tag-liquid-medicine-recall","tag-liquid-pain-medication","tag-medication","tag-pain-medication-recall","tag-recall-alert-ibuprofen","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552609","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=552609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}