J&J issues device recall
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February 20, 2011, Sunday
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Johnson & Johnson said it has recalled two lots of Simponi injection devices - one in the United States and one in Europe - after discovering they may deliver less than a full dose of the rheumatoid arthritis medicine.
The potential defect was discovered by the company during regular quality testing and the voluntary recall was initiated earlier this week.
J&J, which has been beset by recalls of more than 250 million bottles of its consumer health care medicines as well as other products due to manufacturing and quality control problems, has stepped up inspections at plants across its business.
"There is no issue with the Simponi drug product. It is merely the drug delivery device that has a manufacturing issue," Monica Neufang, a business communications spokeswoman for J&J, said of the latest recall.
From the affected US lot of 839 pre-filled injection devices, nearly 80 percent were quarantined at the wholesaler level, the company said.
(Reuters)
The potential defect was discovered by the company during regular quality testing and the voluntary recall was initiated earlier this week.
J&J, which has been beset by recalls of more than 250 million bottles of its consumer health care medicines as well as other products due to manufacturing and quality control problems, has stepped up inspections at plants across its business.
"There is no issue with the Simponi drug product. It is merely the drug delivery device that has a manufacturing issue," Monica Neufang, a business communications spokeswoman for J&J, said of the latest recall.
From the affected US lot of 839 pre-filled injection devices, nearly 80 percent were quarantined at the wholesaler level, the company said.
(Reuters)
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