Lessons from the blood pressure drug recall.

TUMOR risk factors; CARCINOGENS; COMMUNICATION; DRUG adulteration; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE agents; MEDICINE information services; PRODUCT recall; UNITED States. Food & Drug Administration; IRBESARTAN; LOSARTAN; VALSARTAN; HEALTH information services; ANGIOTENSIN receptors

The article offers information on the recall of prescription medications that contain the generic drug valsartan by manufacturers. The drugs were recalled after investigators discovered trace amounts of possible impurities which can cause cancer in some of the products. It mentions that additional lots of valsartan, and batches of two the same drugs, irbesartan and losartan, were also pulled from shelves of pharmacies.