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Notice to Veterans that take BP meds

monkey44
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Unfortunately, the VA pharmacy in some areas has distributed a BP med that is under recall ...

If you take Valsartan (or it's derivatives) go to NY Times and read the story - last Friday article or google it - get the batch number, and check it with your bottle - or call your pharmacy and ask what to do ...

Just a heads up to the vets on the road ๐Ÿ™‚
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Bumpyroad
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2gypsies wrote:
pasusan wrote:
This doesn't surprise me, although it should surprise all of us that our pharmaceutical companies sell us medications made in China.


If a U.S. manufacturer has a plant in China it will be overseen by the U.S. company - strictly.


true depending on the definition of "overseen" but many/most of these foreign goods are just purchased by the american company and are not owned by the US company. they are also "overseen" by the US FDA to a certain degree.
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pasusan wrote:
This doesn't surprise me, although it should surprise all of us that our pharmaceutical companies sell us medications made in China.


If a U.S. manufacturer has a plant in China it will be overseen by the U.S. company - strictly.
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Lisinopril is a different class of blood pressure medicine. It is an Ace inhibitor. A lot of the generic forms of these type of medications end in "pril".

Valsartan is in a class called Angiotensin receptor blockers. A lot of the generic forms of these types of medicines and in "sartan". The brand name for Valsartan is Diovan. Losartan (brand name Cozaar) is in the same class and is much cheaper than Valsartan.

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I take Lisinopril.Hope it is not another name for it.

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pasusan wrote:
This doesn't surprise me, although it should surprise all of us that our pharmaceutical companies sell us medications made in China.

The same thing has happened since at least 2007 with some blood pressure medications.


Let's trust Chinese meds, but not the NYT. :R


Exactly. Chinese quality control is notoriously lax--China bombs, lead paint on kids toys, melamine tainted formula killing infants, and on and on--yet our pharmaceutical companies seem unconcerned, preferring to just deal with problems after the fact.
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pasusan
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This doesn't surprise me, although it should surprise all of us that our pharmaceutical companies sell us medications made in China.

The same thing has happened since at least 2007 with some blood pressure medications.


Let's trust Chinese meds, but not the NYT. :R

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Bumpyroad wrote:
One problem with this thread is that folks are confusing the product manufacturer and the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturer. evidently the manufacturer of the API is the one that changed manufacturing methods/processes and caused this impurity to exist. this would of course be in violation of the New Drug Application requirements.
It is theoretically possible that that supplier in India, and others, actually obtain the API from the chinese firm.
and knowing the manufacturer of the finished drug product gives you no knowledge as to who manufactured the API.
bumpy


Then again it's totally possible that the Indian company is manufacturing the API itself which they could do cheaply enough.

Until they find out otherwise I'm not going to worry myself to death about it.

Or maybe I should have a panic attack because they might have gotten it from China and two other medications that I'm taking were manufactured in India.

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azdryheat wrote:
Sorry, I'd have to have from another source as I don't believe a word the NYT says.

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One problem with this thread is that folks are confusing the product manufacturer and the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturer. evidently the manufacturer of the API is the one that changed manufacturing methods/processes and caused this impurity to exist. this would of course be in violation of the New Drug Application requirements.
It is theoretically possible that that supplier in India, and others, actually obtain the API from the chinese firm.
and knowing the manufacturer of the finished drug product gives you no knowledge as to who manufactured the API.
bumpy

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mobeewan wrote:
I take valsart, but so far it is from a manufacturer not on the recall list, mine originated in India.


That sounds right. A majority of our meds are manufactured in either China or India. I try and stick with American manufacturers when possible, but it's getting much harder. A few years back I remember a Chinese company intentionally faked the active ingredient in Heparin. It killed 12 patients on cardio bypass when their blood clotted during open heart surgery. 15% of Chinese children are poisoned with lead and they don't give a ****. You think their careful with what they put in our pills? Some generics are good and some are bad. If you want to know where your pill was manufactured, on the bottom right corner of the bottle you will see an NDC # looks like this,
NDC: 00378-1809-10 That number will tell you the real manufacturer.
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mobeewan
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I take valsart, but so far it is from a manufacturer not on the recall list, mine originated in India.

monkey44
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Bumpyroad wrote:
monkey44 wrote:
Unfortunately, the VA pharmacy in some areas has distributed a BP med that is under recall ...

If you take Valsartan (or it's derivatives) go to NY Times and read the story - last Friday article or google it - get the batch number, and check it with your bottle - or call your pharmacy and ask what to do ...

Just a heads up to the vets on the road ๐Ÿ™‚

evidently the drug component was contaminated. might affect other manufacturers if any??????
bumpy


According to my info, it was ONE manufacturer located in China and several (Six?) distributors - but all from the same manufacturer. The different names on the report are distributors, not manufacturers. They call themselves "Drug Companies" but did not manufacture this specific product batch - that's the best info I have - but don't just take my word, it's just advice to follow up with your doctor if you take this med ...
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Bumpyroad
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monkey44 wrote:
Unfortunately, the VA pharmacy in some areas has distributed a BP med that is under recall ...

If you take Valsartan (or it's derivatives) go to NY Times and read the story - last Friday article or google it - get the batch number, and check it with your bottle - or call your pharmacy and ask what to do ...

Just a heads up to the vets on the road ๐Ÿ™‚

evidently the drug component was contaminated. might affect other manufacturers if any??????
bumpy