From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2009-05-12 22:11:26 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Digoxin recall (for those who compound due to possible dose problems)
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>, ferret-l@LISTSERV.FERRETMAILINGLIST.ORG
> [UPDATED 05/12/2009] AS Medication Solutions, LLC, a drug repackage=20
> company, announced today that all tablets of Caraco brand Digoxin,=20
> USP, 0.25 mg, distributed prior to March 31, 2009, which are not=20
> expired and are within the expiration date of August, 2011, are=20
> being voluntarily recalled to the consumer level. The tablets are=20
> being recalled because they may differ in size and therefore could=20
> have more or less of the active ingredient, digoxin. Caraco=20
> Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd manufactured the recalled tablets.=20
> The recalled product is a scored round biconvex white tablet=20
> imprinted with =93441=94, with an NDC number of 54569-5758-0 (30-count).
http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2009/safety09.htm#Digoxin
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/asmedications05_09.html
Don't want those ferrets who get this med to be accidently overdosed!
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
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