{"id":429234,"date":"2026-05-15T16:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429234\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:51:11","slug":"enalapril-blood-pressure-medication-recalled-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429234\/","title":{"rendered":"Enalapril blood pressure medication recalled nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of tablets of a blood pressure medication have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/chocolate-bar-food-recall-22250614.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">recalled<\/a> due to possible impurities, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0675 bottles of enalapril maleate tablets, sold in 20-milligram capsules in 1,000-count packaging, was voluntarily recalled by the manufacturer on April 23, according to the FDA report.<\/p>\n<p>The medication, which is used to treat hypertension and symptomatic congestive heart failure, failed a test for impurity and degradation specifications, the FDA states.\u00a0The FDA says the product is \u201cnot likely to cause adverse health consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lot number for the recalled medication is GEH25023 with an expiration of 6\/30\/2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The medication is manufactured by Unique Pharmaceutical Laboratories, a division of J.B. Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, in India and distributed nationwide by New Jersey-based Rising\u00a0Pharma Holdings.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of tablets of a blood pressure medication have been\u00a0recalled due to possible impurities, according to the U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-429234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429234","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=429234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}