Not the sort of thing you want to wake up to if you have any of these pills in your medicine cabinet:
Thousands of bottles of a commonly prescribed antidepressant drug have been recalled by the FDA because they were found to contain a suspected cancer-causing chemical.
Over 7,100 bottles of Duloxetine, sold under the brand name Cymbalta, were voluntarily recalled after the toxic chemical N-nitroso-duloxetine was found, the Food and Drug Administration announced.
Might not be a bad idea for folks to see if they got that particular brand on the shelf.
It's actually not entirely unheard-of for N-nitroso-duloxetine to be present in the drug, as "low levels [of it] can be produced" during production of the drug.
But it has to be kept at a strict cap:
When nitrosamines are present in higher concentrations, and people are exposed to it for an extended period of time, there's an increased risk for cancer development, leading the FDA to strictly limit the concentrations.
The chemical can be linked to "the drug's manufacturing process or its chemical structure or even the conditions in which they are stored or packaged," the FDA noted.
They "issued the recall for 7,107 bottles, which covers 500-count bottles of 20mg Duloxetine Delayed-Release Capsules, Lot number: 220128, Exp. Date 12/2024."
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