{"id":382666,"date":"2026-04-16T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382666\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:24:08","slug":"fda-issues-nationwide-xanax-recall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382666\/","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":382620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[198805,198804,134,524,111,139,69,179344,198800,198802,198799,198801,198803],"class_list":{"0":"post-382666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-class-2-recall","9":"tag-class-ii-recall","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-xanax","16":"tag-xanax-recall","17":"tag-xanax-recalled","18":"tag-xanax-xr","19":"tag-xanax-xr-recall","20":"tag-xanax-xr-recalled"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382666","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=382666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}