Last month, for example, the FDA did not object to certain manufacturers temporarily distributing tainted losartan pills as a way to ensure continued access to the medicine until the impurity ...

Now company officials have added an additional six lots of Losartan potassium and hydrochlorothiazide tablets after trace amounts of N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA) was found in one of the pill's ...

The ingredient in the tainted losartan potassium pills was made by Hetero Labs Ltd., based in India. That company has had manufacturing problems; it received a warning letter from the FDA in 2017 ...

The company hasn’t had any reports of users getting sick, but the impurity level in these pills is above what the FDA considers an acceptable daily intake level. Doctors prescribe losartan for ...