{"id":127757,"date":"2021-09-17T05:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/pfizer-recalls-all-lots-of-anti-smoking-drug-over-carcinogen-presence"},"modified":"2021-09-17T05:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:23:02","slug":"pfizer-recalls-all-lots-of-anti-smoking-drug-over-carcinogen-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/pfizer-recalls-all-lots-of-anti-smoking-drug-over-carcinogen-presence","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer recalls all lots of anti-smoking drug over carcinogen presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pfizer-recalls-all-lots-of-anti-smoking-drug-over-carcinogen-presence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) said on Thursday it was recalling all lots of its anti-smoking treatment, Chantix, due to high levels of cancer-causing agents called nitrosamines in the pills.<\/p>\n<p>The drugmaker paused distribution of the drug in June, and has already recalled a number of lots of the medicine so far. [USN: L4N2PK3WK]<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer asked wholesalers and distributors on Thursday to stop the use and distribution of the tablets immediately.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Pfizer Inc said on Thursday it was recalling all lots of its anti-smoking treatment, Chantix, due to high levels of cancer-causing agents called nitrosamines in the pills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) said on Thursday it was recalling all lots of its anti-smoking treatment, Chantix, due to high levels of cancer-causing agents called nitrosamines in the pills. The drugmaker paused distribution of the drug in June, and has already recalled a number of lots of the medicine so far. [USN: L4N2PK3WK] Pfizer asked wholesalers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}