{"id":395324,"date":"2026-04-16T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395324\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:21:08","slug":"fda-issues-nationwide-xanax-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395324\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA issues nationwide Xanax recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(Gray News) &#8211; Xanax, a popular prescription anxiety medication, has been recalled nationwide, according to the Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On March 17, the distributor recalled 3-milligram tablets of Xanax XR, sold in 60-tablet bottles. On April 15, the pills were recalled nationwide after they \u201cfailed dissolution specifications,\u201d according to the FDA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/ires\/index.cfm?Product=219233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/ires\/index.cfm?Product=219233\">recall<\/a> affects lot number 8177156 with an expiration date of Feb. 28, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone who has been prescribed the recalled Xanax should stop taking it and safely dispose of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The recall is classified as Class II, which indicates \u201ca situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Xanax is usually prescribed to treat anxiety symptoms. It is one of the most commonly prescribed benzodiazepines in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Gray News) &#8211; Xanax, a popular prescription anxiety medication, has been recalled nationwide, according to the Food and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[187785,187784,163,85,46,482,168033,187780,187782,187779,187781,187783],"class_list":["post-395324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-class-2-recall","tag-class-ii-recall","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-medication","tag-xanax","tag-xanax-recall","tag-xanax-recalled","tag-xanax-xr","tag-xanax-xr-recall","tag-xanax-xr-recalled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}