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The maker of wide-ranging "water-based homeopathic medicines" has recalled 32 products marketed to children and infants due to microbial contamination, according to an announcement posted on the Food and Drug Administration's website this week.
The announcement does not provide any specifics about the contamination or potential risks. However, the North Carolina-based manufacturer behind the recall, King Bio, issued a similar announcement back in July. At that time, the company recalled three other products after an FDA inspection found batches contaminated with the bacteria Pseudomonas brenneri, Pseudomonas fluorescens, and Burkholderia multivorans.
Pseudomonas brenneri is a bacterium recently found in natural mineral waters, and its clinical significance is murky. However, Pseudomonas fluorescens is known to be an opportunistic pathogen, causing blood infections, and Burkholderia multivorans can cause infections in people with compromised immune systems and cystic fibrosis. It was also recently found to be a rare but emerging cause of meningitis.
[...] UPDATE 8/24/2018: King Bio updated its website to include a note about the recall. The company wrote that: "Within the past two weeks, microbial contamination was discovered in two children's products, but as an added measure of caution, we chose to recall all the children's products manufactured from August 2015 to August 2018." It added that no injuries or illnesses have been reported to date.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 28 2018, @09:21PM (3 children)
Anyway, this why all the talent is fleeing academia. Its filled with people who find science too hard... almost all your time is wasted explaining the most basic stuff to them. Its irritating as hell.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday August 28 2018, @09:27PM (2 children)
You know, for all my interactions with PhDs, I don't think I've ever met one who "fled academia" because "science is too hard"
Pointless budget cuts? Oh yeah. Tenure track becoming impossible? For sure. Noxious department politics? Definetly
Having some entirely fantastical notion of rigor that wasn't being lived up to? Never.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 28 2018, @10:13PM (1 child)
You misread. Those are the ones who stay in academia... The people who dont want to put up with them (and all the BS they try to substitute for doing a good job) are the ones fleeing.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday August 29 2018, @01:25AM
Nah, I read you right the first time, but typed wrong. I mean you'll just have to take my word on that, and the context clues of the rest of my post.