Comments on: Major veterinary drug recall gets bigger

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:42:27 +0000

I hope they didn’t get it from the bargain bin at the distributor. :(

By: Sandi K

Sandi K — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:35:40 +0000

Its interesting, I just saw on CNN where Dr. Sanjay Gupta said that one of the drugs they are using in Haiti for amputations is ketamine…

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:00:54 +0000

Interesting … from last July, and another “voluntary” recall. The FDA needs MANDATORY recall authority! Grrrr!

By: Lis

Lis — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:38:53 +0000

It's now human drugs, as well: Teva Pharmaceuticals USA issues a voluntary user-level nationwide recall of Propofol Injectable Emulsion 10 mg/mL 100 mL vials, lot numbers 31305429B and 31305430B

By: cb

cb — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:46:46 +0000

Would Dr. Pion’s quote, starting with the “damn the lawyers…” fit on a bumper sticker?
Tylenol recall got me ranting again this AM ;)

By: Kim Thornton

Kim Thornton — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:18:08 +0000

I don’t know when or why it disappeared, but integrity seems to be in short supply these days.

By: Christie Keith

Christie Keith — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:30:52 +0000

I understand, Diana. The tragedy is that the distributors were not required to tell the vets, and so most of them didn’t, and then they used that as an “explanation” of why they didn’t. But common sense and integrity would dictate that they SHOULD have told their customers back in September. They may not have been required to, but they should have done it anyway.

And the law SHOULD require them to, even if it currently doesn’t. This is really wrong. :(

By: Diana Duncan

Diana Duncan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:55:42 +0000

I apologize for not being more clear in my comments…..I do agree with what you are saying. I was just posting the information I was given by our distributor. They were notified but as a distributor recall, not a customer recall. I checked all of our stock and we had none of these lot numbers. I agree that this is a mess….we may have had this and not known there was an issue with it.

By: Christie Keith

Christie Keith — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:30:07 +0000

Diana — that’s not correct. What FDA told me is that it was because they had no adverse events reported for the butorphanol, but they did for the ketamine. The recalled butorphanol wasn’t some isolated special pre-sales lot — if you take the time to read the PDF that I link to of the Sept. 4 butorphanol recall letter, some of that butorphanol was shipped all the way back in October of 2008… not last year, but nearly a year and a half ago!

Are you seriously suggesting it sat for a year and a half unsold in a warehouse just in case it was recalled in the future? It’s all set to expire this summer. Believe me, at least some of it, if not most of it, was sold long ago, and there is still no recall to the veterinarian level of it, nor even a public notice.

By: Diana Duncan

Diana Duncan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:53:50 +0000

I have looked into the recall of butorphanol today. That part of the recall was a distributor level recall, which means that they had all of the distributors pull it from their shelves prior to sale. This is why the veterinarians weren’t notified directly.