{"id":183805,"date":"2024-02-27T13:23:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T19:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/eye-ointments-sold-nationwide-recalled-due-to-infection-risk"},"modified":"2024-02-27T13:23:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T19:23:26","slug":"eye-ointments-sold-nationwide-recalled-due-to-infection-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/eye-ointments-sold-nationwide-recalled-due-to-infection-risk","title":{"rendered":"Eye ointments sold nationwide recalled due to infection risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eye-ointments-sold-nationwide-recalled-due-to-infection-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multiple brands of lubricant eye ointments are being recalled due to a risk of infection after federal inspectors found unsterile conditions at the Indian plant where the products were manufactured.<\/p>\n<p>The recall by Brassica Pharma Pvt. in Thane, a city in the Indian state of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikivoyage.org\/wiki\/Maharashtra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maharashtra<\/a>, comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/product-recall-eye-drops-cvs-rite-aid-target-walmart-fda\/\" target=\"_blank\">deadly outbreak last year<\/a> of eye infections linked to artificial tears made by another Indian firm.<\/p>\n<p>Sold nationwide by retailers including CVS Health and <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.walmart.com\/recalls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walmart<\/a>, the latest recall involves four products by brands Equate, CVS Health and AACE Pharmaceuticals, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/safety\/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts\/brassica-pharma-pvt-ltd-issues-voluntary-nationwide-recall-equate-lubricant-eye-ointment-equate-stye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">notice<\/a> posted Monday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple brands of lubricant eye ointments are being recalled due to a risk of infection after federal inspectors found unsterile conditions at the Indian plant where the products were manufactured. The recall by Brassica Pharma Pvt. in Thane, a city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, comes after a deadly outbreak last year of eye [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183805","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}