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| The United States: Triad alcohol prep pads, alcohol swabs, and alcohol swabsticks: Recall due to potential microbial contamination |
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The Triad Group alcohol prep pads are co-packaged and distributed with Genentech medicines Boniva Injection, Fuzeon, Nutropin A.Q.Pen, Pegasys, and TNKase to customers in the United States. Genentech medicines are not contaminated and may continue to be used in accordance with the package insert. Patients and healthcare providers should not use the alcohol prep pads packaged with these medicines and should instead use an alternate alcohol prep pad that is not involved with the Triad Group recall.
Please refer to the following website in FDA for details:
http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm239319.htm
Situation in Hong Kong: In Hong Kong, only Fuzeon is registered which comes with alcohol swabs and it is a prescription drug. Two sources of Fuzeon are registered by Roche Hong Kong Ltd., one manufactured in Switzerland and the other one in Germany. Only the product manufactured in Switzerland is available and marketed in Hong Kong. However, the alcohol swabs contained in the boxes are manufactured by Buttner-Frank GmbH in Germany. The situation in Hong Kong is not affected by FDA’s action today.
Ends/Monday, January 17, 2011
Issued at HKT 14:30
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