Problem with Birth control pills

Problem with Birth control pills

 TheFDA said in a statement on its website, “The error means the daily regimen forthe oral contraceptives may be incorrect and could leave women at risk of anunplanned pregnancy, it said. The defects do not pose any immediate healthrisks.” This packaging error could leave women atrisk for unplanned pregnancy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said.

A spokesman for Qualitest Pharmaceuticalssaid that "there are no immediatehealth issues currently" because of the packaging problems. Rather, hesaid, “the chief concern is that womenmay unintentionally become pregnant after taking the oral contraceptive.”

"Theunintended consequence of pregnancy is really the issue," spokesmanKevin Wiggins said. "That's why thecompany took a drastic action."

According to the company they havedistributed 1.4 million packages to pharmacists and customers since last year.This could really be a great issue.

The Huntsville-based company has given astatement that According to a statement for theHuntsville-based company, "selectblisters (found inside the pill box) were rotated 180 degrees within the card,reversing the weekly tablet orientation." This helped to leave the pills' lot number, as well as the expirationdate, "no longer visible."

The company that is responsible for thisproblem said that, “As a result of thispackaging error, the daily regimen for these oral contraceptives may beincorrect and could leave women without adequate contraception, and at risk forunwanted pregnancy," 

The company said that they will recall thepills because it’s against there standards, they said, “We're dedicated to ensuring the safe use of our products, (and) thisrecall reaffirms our high standards," he said.”It's an error, nonetheless,and we put patients at the center of what we do."

Wellit’s difficult to control the distribution of that much pills to the customers;I don’t know how they will recall all those pills that are distributed. Theproducts that are distributed includes: Cyclafem 7/7/7, Cyclafem 1/35,Emoquette, Gildess FE 1.5/30, Gildess FE 1/20, Orsythia, Previfem andTri-Previfem. They said that they will investigate the error and remove it assoon as possible, but till the manufacturing  of these products are stopped.