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FDA Recalls 13,500 Bottles of Blood Pressure Pills

Inventia Healthcare Limited has voluntarily pulled more than 13,500 bottles of chlorthalidone tablets after the 25 mg doses failed dissolution testing.

By Isla Camilleri 1 min read AI-written

The affected lot joins an earlier recall from the same manufacturer, covering the same expiration date, to bring the combined total to 25,027 bottles under two Class II actions this year, according to FDA enforcement reports cited by Healthline.

A Class II recall, in FDA classification, signals a situation where a product may cause temporary or medically reversible health consequences — not the most severe category, but not trivial when the drug in question is used to manage blood pressure, a condition where inconsistent dosing can carry real risk. Dissolution failure means the tablet may not break down at the rate required for the drug to be absorbed properly, which could leave a patient receiving less of the active compound than prescribed.

What the available information does not yet establish is how many patients may have received the affected bottles, whether any adverse events have been reported in connection with this specific lot, or why the same manufacturer's product failed the same test twice within a year on tablets sharing an expiration date. Those questions sit, for now, with the FDA and Inventia.

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Isla Camilleri Global Affairs & Lifestyle Editor

Isla Camilleri lost her mother at four, grew up in every city her diplomat father was posted to, married at 22 and left at 23, and came back to Malta to open a café-boutique in Valletta that sells couture and coffee to people who understand both. She covers the world the way someone searches for something — thoroughly, and without quite finding it. Borders have always felt temporary to her; their consequences never have. She looks for the person inside the international headline and refuses to let distance make that person smaller.

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