�The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is word of advice consumers world Health Organization filled prescriptions at The Medicine Shoppe pharmacies located at 8035A Liberty Road and 5900 Reisterstown Road in Baltimore that they may have received drugs that were either expired or suspected counterfeit. The FDA is particularly concerned because a number of the drugs are for serious diseases and could have an adverse outcome on intervention.
The products in dubiousness include:
- Lisinopril (20 milligrams)
- Guaifenesin/Dextromethorphan (600 mg and 1000 mg)
- Gabapentin (century mg, 300 mg and 400 mg)
- Metoprolol (50 mg)
- Nifedipine (30 mg)
- Diclofenac Sodium (30 mg)
- Glucophage (five hundred mg Extended Release)
- Glucovance (125 mg and 500 mg)
- Glipizide/Metformin (2.50 mg/250 mg)
- Furosemide (20 mg)
- Tamoxifen Citrate (10 mg)
- Metformin HCl ER (500 mg)
- Calcitrol (0.25 micrograms)
The FDA has no evidence that any other Medicine Shoppe pharmacies outside of the 8035A Liberty Road and 5900 Reisterstown Road facilities are involved.
Because the safety and efficacy of the listed drugs has not been established, the FDA is strongly advising consumers wHO filled prescriptions for these drugs at these 2 pharmacies to contact their prescribing dr. immediately for new prescriptions. Additionally, consumers in self-possession of the above listed prescription drugs from these pharmacies should call FDA at 800-521-5783 for further information on how to dispose of the drugs.
Consumers and health tutelage professionals can buoy report contrary events to the FDA's MedWatch program at 800-FDA-1088, by ring armor at MedWatch, HF-2, FDA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Md 20852-9787, or online at hTTP://www.fDA.gov/medwatch/report.htm.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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