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 Friday, May 02, 2003

 

LATEST UPDATE on RECALL OF PAN PHARMACEUTICAL'S PRODUCTS by Australia's Medical Watchdog (TGA)

Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration - TGA ADDED FURTHER on 1st May, 2003 for recall Pan Pharmaceutical products.

The list below is additional to previous lists ( scroll down to see earlier lists in postings on the same issue on this weblog)

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LIST (In .pdf files and need Acrobat) as of 3.30 pm May 1st. 2003

Sydney Morning Herald reports:
    The Therapeutic Goods Administration announced a recall of a further 701 products yesterday.

    The new products, including some products from brands including Golden Glow, Metagenics, Nature's Own, Nutra-Life, Pretorius and Vita Gold, . These are in addition to the 668 products the medicines watchdog had already recalled.

    A total of 1369 vitamins and health supplements made by Pan have now been ordered off the shelves by the TGA. The TGA said this was the final list of products recalled following Pan's licence suspension. But it left open the possibility of more recalls.

    The TGA first recalled 219 Pan products on Monday when it suspended the manufacturer's licence. A further 449 products made by Pan for other companies were recalled on Wednesday. At that time the regulator was still waiting for 15 companies to reveal how many of their products were affected by Pan's problems.

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