Posted by Alan on February 4, 2003, at 11:34:37
In reply to Re: My Neurontin has been recalled-bad batch, posted by djmmm on February 3, 2003, at 21:37:48
> HMMMMMM...Pfizer makes Neurontin...Im not surprised...Warner Lambert is the parent company of Pfizer and Parke-Davis, they recalled Nardil a few months back...now Neurontin...I dont know what their problem is, but I do know they have an EXTENSIVE history of recalling meds and non-compliance to manufacturing standards.
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=============================================Systematic enforcement is practically nil. Quality control in pharmaceutical manufacturing takes place almost entirely on the honor system, with on-site FDA inspections and checks taking place once every few years unless a problem is reported. (Your local gas pump undergoes government inspection more frequently than pharmaceutical manufacturing lines.)
No doubt most companies and facilities try to act in good faith, but there's a lot of mediocrity in the world, not to mention incompetence, and companies aren't going to be quick to report their own failures if they think the effects can go unnoticed.By the way, even when there are plant inspections, there is an allowable 20 - 25% varience *either way* in potency (you guess which way the potency would probably lean). That, it seems, would be critical when regulating and titrating doses of the medication I take, bzds.
Alan
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