{"id":174324,"date":"2025-12-08T21:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174324\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:54:06","slug":"fda-announces-class-iii-recall-for-ziac-blood-pressure-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174324\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA announces Class III recall for Ziac blood pressure tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"COYI7JVRHFC5TMDR2QE2L3CJXY\">Over 11,000 bottles of a high blood pressure medication have been recalled for potential cross contamination with another drug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3QIKLKHG7ZB37HWSJ4KYNMFFQM\">Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., based in New Jersey, has voluntarily recalled thousands of units of bisoprolol fumarate and hydrochlorothiazide tablets (Ziac) for potentially containing amounts of a high cholesterol drug, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/recalls\/high-blood-pressure-med-recall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NewsNation<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2YZ27CRESJCBHPJFWOBTVUELNU\">The drugmaker tested reserve samples, which revealed the presence of ezetimibe, a drug used to treat high cholesterol. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"42KNPWV3BVCWLIFGE5UR5M6GUU\">The Federal Drug Administration classified the recall with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/safety\/industry-guidance-recalls\/recalls-background-and-definitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Class III<\/a> risk level. This means the use or exposure to the recalled product \u201cis not likely to cause adverse health consequences,\u201d according to the FDA. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RPO44I6JORD4TIRGQMPXUWUL4E\">Affected tablets range from 2.5 mg to 6.25 mg dosages in different bottle sizes with expiration dates starting November 2025 through December 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AIROX7OUJZF57DK7YQ7GBX3ABQ\">Consumers can identify affected lots by these lot codes:<\/p>\n<p>30-count bottles, NDC-68462-878-30100-count bottle, NDC-68462-878-01500-count bottle, NDC-68462-878-05<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CHTMGLYFQZCHLOYMGSPHWY4WQQ\">Glenmark and the FDA have yet to issue recommendations on what to do with the recalled drug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 11,000 bottles of a high blood pressure medication have been recalled for potential cross contamination with another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-174324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}