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9:37 pm Feb 1, 2012

Birth control pills recalled, may not prevent pregnancy

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  • Packaging errors led Pfizer to recall 14 lots of these birth control pills and an equal number of a generic version.

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  • Drugmaker says 1 million packets may contain inadequate doses of the active ingredients needed to prevent pregnancy.

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  • Pfizer found that some packets of the drugs had too many active tablets, while others had too few.

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  • 28 lots of Birth Control Pills are Recalled by Pfizer

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    • 1 million Pfizer packets of birth control pills are being recalled
    • Packets have been found to contain incorrect quantities of active pills versus sugar pills
    • Pfizer has stated that the error was caused by mechanical and visual inspection mistakes alike

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