date:Sep 18, 2018
The US Food and Drug Administration said it found an additional unexpected impurity in three lots of Torrent Pharmaceuticals' recalled valsartan drug.
Several pills that contain valsartan, a generic ingredient that helps people with high blood pressure and heart failure, have been under a voluntary recall since July. The drugs were tainted with N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, an impurity that is considered a possible carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency. It's an organic chemica