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Just go ahead now and swallow some hot sauce; it might help make this go down easier. :rant:
[url]http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fda-warns-of-serious-manufacturing-violations-in-letter-to-epipen-manufacturing-facility-2017-09-07-141034838[/url]
Now I'm really wishing Allerject would return. I know Canadian EpiPens are made by another company (Pfizer), but I have no doubt they get their parts from similar places, if not the exact same source.
A good reminder to always carry two - and from two different lot numbers if possible.
Although Mylan manufactures and sells the actual EpiPen device, Pfizer manufactures the drug the device administers. And although the financial deal between the two companies isn’t completely clear, Pfizer has shown increased revenues related to EpiPens for the last few years.
The Food and Drug Administration described “significant violations of current good manufacturing practice” in a warning letter to a Pfizer Inc. unit that manufactures Mylan NV’s EpiPen allergic reaction treatment.
The FDA received a total of 228 reports of EpiPen or EpiPen Jr. failures during the same time period, according to documents made available as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. In addition to the deaths, 35 people were hospitalized, according to the reports.
An Oregon parent wanted details about school employees getting paid to stay home. A retired educator sought data about student performance in Louisiana. And college journalists in Kentucky requested documents about the investigations of employees accused of sexual misconduct.
Instead, they got something else: sued by the agencies they had asked for public records.