Potentially affected products are sold under the Claris, Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer and West-Ward Pharmaceuticals labels, and IV bags sold under the following labels should be removed immediately from pharmacy inventories:
- Claris — metronidazole, ciprofloxacin, ondansetron
- Pfizer — metronidazole, ciprofloxacin, ondansetron
- Sagent Pharmaceuticals — metronidazole, ondansetron
- West–Ward Pharmaceuticals — metronidazole, ondansetron
Sagent does sell IV bags of ciprofloxacin, but they are not made by Claris and are not subject to this recall, according to the alert.
Read the FDA’s alert on the Claris IV bag contamination.
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