Heart and Blood Pressure Medication Recalled Again Along With Cholesterol Medication: CPSC

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall was initiated because “the prescription drug packaging is not child resistant" CPSC

For more than a year, recalls of Losartan and similar blood pressure drugs have been recalled due to carcinogenic impurities. However, that’s not why Sandoz recalled about 636,000 bottles of Losartan Potassium and Ezetimibe, a drug to treat cholesterol.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said the recall was initiated because “the prescription drug packaging is not child-resistant as required by the Poison Prevention Packaging Act, posing a poisoning risk if swallowed by children.”