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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday August 17 2017, @09:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the garbage-in-garbage-out dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The Food and Drug Administration advised consumers and healthcare providers Friday to avoid all liquid products made by PharmaTech LLC of Davie, Florida after finding dangerous Burkholderia cepacia bacteria in the water system used to manufacture its products. Those products include liquid drugs and dietary supplements labeled under Rugby Laboratories, Major Pharmaceuticals, and Leader Brands.

An outbreak of B. cepacia infections affecting at least 60 people in eight states led the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to PharmaTech. Late last year, the agencies tracked the source to more than 10 lots of PharmaTech's oral liquid docusate sodium, a stool softener. But suspicion of contamination crept to the company's other products, and this month PharmaTech issued a voluntary nationwide recall of its other liquid products, such as its liquid vitamin D drops and liquid multivitamins that are marketed for infants and children.

"B. cepacia poses a serious threat to vulnerable patients, including infants and young children who still have developing immune systems," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement. "These products were distributed nationwide to retailers, health care facilities, pharmacies and sold online—making it important that parents, patients and health care providers be made aware of the potential risk and immediately stop using these products."

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @10:30PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @10:30PM (#555597)

    Good. There are too many poor-as-shit people and not enough no-skill jobs [soylentnews.org] for them. Fortunately rich-as-fuck highly-skilled in-demand Soylentils shall be exempt from the culling, because we here on SN are the fucking elite of the entire universe.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @10:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @10:56PM (#555604)

    Offtopic really?

    Apparently one is obliged to be explicit with this crowd of mouth breathing idiots.

    "Good! Cull the poor by poisoning their vitamin supplements!!"

    Jesus L Christ you rich fuckers aren't worth your pay. Elite scum of SN.