The company Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is announcing that they are withdrawing more batches of the common hypertension drug Losartan after discovering that they contained unacceptably high levels of a carcinogen in January of this year.

Losartan is a drug that doctors commonly use to treat high blood pressure in people with or without
Healthcare professionals also prescribe Losartan for the treatment of nephropathy in people with type 2 diabetes.
Torrent Pharmaceuticals, which also goes by Torrent Pharma, markets the drug.
Recently, the company voluntarily withdrew some batches of Losartan from the market because they contained traces of an impurity at levels that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) consider unsafe.
On January 3, 2019, the company first
Since then, they have announced several “expansion recalls,” in which they withdrew more batches of the drug.
Now, the FDA have
According to the National Library of Medicine, NDEA is a hepatotoxic agent, which means that it damages the liver. They also state that it is “reasonably anticipated” to cause cancer in humans.
Torrent Pharmaceuticals discovered the impurity while testing batches that had been manufactured using “active pharmaceutical ingredient manufactured by Hetero Labs Ltd using the old route of synthesis,” according to the company’s announcement on the
The latest withdrawal includes 3 more lots of Losartan potassium tablets, USP and 2 lots of Losartan potassium/hydrochlorothiazide tablets, USP.
Importantly, the pharmaceutical company advises that people who are already taking these medications continue to do so, as an abrupt interruption of treatment without an alternative backup may pose a greater danger to health.
The company recommend that people who currently take the drug seek advice from their pharmacists or physicians regarding alternative treatment before they stop taking the medication.
The FDA website contains a table that lists the recalled products’ names and batch numbers, making them easier to identify.
Torrent Pharmaceuticals also welcomes people with concerns about the recall and consumers who wish to report adverse medical events to contact the company, either via phone, at 1-800-912-9561, or via email, at medinfo.torrent@apcerls.com.
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The FDA