{"id":176268,"date":"2025-12-09T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176268\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:57:09","slug":"blood-pressure-medication-bottles-recalled-due-to-cross-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176268\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood pressure medication bottles recalled due to cross-contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/life\/recalls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recalled<\/a> over 11,000 bottles of Ziac tablets, a common blood pressure medication, after the drug may have been cross-contaminated with a cholesterol medication called ezetimibe.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA says the contamination is not likely to cause serious health problems for patients who may have taken the affected medication.<\/p>\n<p>The recalled tablets range from 2.5 milligrams to 6.25 milligrams. The recalled lots have expiration dates of Nov. 2025 and May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORY | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/life\/recalls\/half-a-million-bottles-of-blood-pressure-drug-recalled-for-high-carcinogen-levels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Half a million bottles of blood pressure drug recalled for high carcinogen levels<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patients should check their medication lot numbers and contact their pharmacist if their medication is affected by the recall.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has recalled over 11,000 bottles of Ziac tablets, a common blood pressure medication, after the drug&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-176268","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\/176268","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=176268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}