Oversized Morphine Sulfate Tablets Recalled by FDA
The Food and Drug Administration issued a recall earlier in the week of a voluntary recall ETHEX Corporation’s single lot of morphine sulfate 60 mg extended release tablets due to a report of a tablet with twice the appropriate thickness. The oversized tablets could contain up to two times as much active morphine sulfate. An overdose of morphine sulfate could cause life threatening consequences such as difficulty of lack of breathing and low blood pressure. For those the product have been prescribed may already be experiencing a debilitating loss of strength and energy and drug impairment, thus causing the inability to recognize the oversized tablet. The recalled lot has a label between April 16th and April 27th of 2008.
