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Baxter Adds to Heparin Recall

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Baxter International is proceeding with the voluntary recall of all remaining lots and doses of its heparin sodium injection multi-dose, single-dose vials and HEP-LOCK heparin flush products. The company initially recalled nine lots of heparin sodium injection vials on January 17, 2008 as a precaution due to reports of adverse patient reactions and suspended production earlier this month.     The FDA and Baxter held off on recalling all lots of the drug at once to avoid a product shortage, wh...

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