World Health Organization July 1, 2019
In recent months regulators across many countries have recalled dozens of medicines to treat high blood pressure because they were found to contain potentially cancer-causing impurities.
These medicines (including valsartan, losartan, Irbesartan) are commonly prescribed globally and came from different manufacturers. The impurities were due to changes in the manufacturing process.
A little less recently, in 2014, in the Ituri district of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, several people, 60% of them children, became sick after taking a medicine believed to reduce shivering and fevers from malaria. It turned out the medicine contained haloperidol, an antipsychotic substance used to treat schizophrenia. Investigators found that the tablets people had been taking contained 13 mg of the drug, about 20 times...
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