Dietary supplement OxyElite Pro has been voluntarily recalled by USPlabs after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration connected the use of the supplements to a cluster of acute liver injuries in Hawaii.
The FDA recently issued a warning letter stating that it would order USPlabs to stop distributing OxyElite Pro nationwide if the company did not voluntarily pull the dietary supplements. According to the FDA news release, “[t]his action ...
continue reading...A story on Pharmalot reports a settlement of $23 million dollars against Johnson & Johnson for issues caused by their Fort Washington, Pennsylvania plant and its over-the-counter business as a whole. After practices at the Fort Washington plant resulted in numerous product recalls and a variety of quality control issues, shareholders filed a class action lawsuit over J&J’s poor managerial performance. The lawsuit alleged that management caused a decline in market share, congressional probes, and a loss of consumer confidence ...
continue reading...According to a report from The Boston Globe, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Teva Pharmaceuticals the exclusive right to place its emergency contraception, One-Step Plan B, on the shelves of drugstores without any age restrictions. Exclusivity was granted for the next three years.
This was made possible when US District Judge Edward Korman of New York ordered in April, 2013 that all levonorgestrel-based emergency contraceptives be available over the counter without a prescription. Judge Korman’s ...
continue reading...A recent order by Judge Richard Kramer of the California Superior Court in San Francisco has expanded the type of metal-on-metal implant cases that may be filed in state court. Johnson & Johnson is facing thousands of lawsuits nationwide as a result of its subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedic’s ASR XL Acetabular System hip implants. It has been estimated that 1 out of every 8 DePuy ASR hip implants will fail prematurely and require corrective surgery within 5 ...
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