{"id":263022,"date":"2025-10-31T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263022\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:37:09","slug":"fda-says-drug-makers-have-recalled-a-blood-pressure-medicine-tainted-with-a-cancer-causing-chemical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263022\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA says drug makers have recalled a blood pressure medicine tainted with a cancer-causing chemical"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says drug makers have recalled more than a half-million bottles of the blood pressure medication prazosin hydrochloride over concerns it may include a cancer-causing chemical.\n <\/p>\n

\n New Jersey-based Teva Pharmaceuticals USA and drugs distributor Amerisource Health Services issued voluntary nationwide recalls<\/a> earlier this month of more than 580,000 bottles of various strengths of prazosin capsules, according to the FDA.\n <\/p>\n

\n Doctors prescribe prazosin, which relaxes blood vessels, to help lower blood pressure. It also is sometimes prescribed for nightmares and other sleep disturbances caused by post-traumatic stress disorder.\n <\/p>\n

\n The FDA said in enforcement orders<\/a> posted online that it has given the affected lots of the drug a Class II risk classification because some of the recalled medication may have nitrosamine impurities that are considered potentially cancer causing.\n <\/p>\n

\n According to the FDA, N-nitrosamine impurities<\/a> are a class of potentially cancer-causing chemicals that can form during manufacture or storage of a drug.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says drug makers have recalled more than a half-million bottles of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243],"class_list":{"0":"post-263022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}