{"id":556562,"date":"2026-04-29T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556562\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:19:09","slug":"antidepressant-medication-recalled-after-uk-patient-finds-wrong-medication-in-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556562\/","title":{"rendered":"Antidepressant medication recalled after UK patient finds wrong medication in pack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 80,000 packs of a commonly used antidepressant have been recalled across the UK after a patient discovered the wrong medicine inside their sealed packaging. <\/p>\n

The patient, who had been prescribed Sertraline<\/a> 100mg film-coated tablets, found a strip of Citalopram 40mg film-coated tablets \u2013 another antidepressant \u2013 within the carton.<\/p>\n

Following this discovery, UK-based pharmaceutical company Amarox initiated a \u201cprecautionary recall<\/a>\u201d of a particular batch of Sertraline, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency<\/a> (MHRA) said. <\/p>\n

The agency said that both medications are manufactured by the same company at the same facility. <\/p>\n

The error “appears to have occurred during secondary packaging of the blister strips into the cartons”, it said.<\/p>\n

Patients who believe they have already taken any Citalopram 40mg tablets by mistake, or are experiencing side effects, should seek medical advice immediately.<\/p>\n

\"PacksPacks of the widely used antidepressant Sertraline (MChromatique\/Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n

The MHRA said that pharmacists should stop supplying the batch and contact any patients who may have been dispensed the impacted product \u2013 Sertraline 100mg tablets batch number V2500425.<\/p>\n

The regulator said that the total batch size is 81,872 packs.<\/p>\n

Dr Alison Cave, the MHRA\u2019s chief safety officer, said: \u201cIf you have been prescribed Sertraline 100mg tablets and have received batch number V2500425, please check the carton contains the right medication.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can find the batch number and expiry date printed on the side of the outer packaging.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the blister strips inside the carton are labelled Citalopram 40mg, please contact your pharmacy as soon as possible. If they are labelled Sertraline 100mg, no further action is needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cPatients who have accidentally taken Citalopram instead of \u2013 or as well as \u2013 Sertraline, may experience some heightened serotonergic side effects.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese can include nausea, headache, sleep changes and mild anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2019, more than 16.7 million prescriptions of Sertraline were prescribed by GPs in England, according to a study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-556562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}