Submit your Defective Drugs claim details for a free, no obligation case review.
Get Started:
drug_recall heparinThe Baxter heparin recall announced in February 2008 was based on contamination. Baxter International, based in Deerfield, Illinois voluntarily recalled nine lots of its Heparin Sodium Injection Multi-Dose Vials after receiving hundreds of reports of adverse reactions to their heparin products.
Soon, additional reports of illnesses and deaths associated with Baxter heparin products were released, prompting the recall of Baxter’s:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has since confirmed that oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS) was the contaminating ingredient responsible for the Baxter heparin recall. The recalled Baxter heparin products were made with heparin from China.
The intestinal lining of pigs is the main source of the heparin used in the U.S. today, and the huge quantities of heparin administered here require a huge source of the raw ingredient – pig mucosal tissue. Baxter got its heparin from Chinese factory farms and “mom-and-pop” operations that raise and harvest pigs.
Baxter International was the supplier of half of the heparin used in the U.S. Millions of patients receive or use heparin each year, and the 2008 Baxter heparin recall was a major blow to the heparin and health care industries. More than 700 reports of adverse events (about 400 of them life-threatening) and some 80 deaths have been linked to contaminated heparin.
Several lawsuits have been filed against Baxter by family members of patients who died after being administered a Baxter heparin product. For example, individuals in Kentucky, Virginia, and Texas have already taken legal actions to obtain compensation for losses caused by contaminated Baxter heparin.
If contaminated heparin from Baxter International adversely affected you or a member of your family, contact us today to learn more about your legal rights.
After months of investigation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has definitively tied three patient deaths to contaminated heparin.
Heparin...
Medical device maker Medtronic has issued a voluntary recall of heparin-coated bypass equipment, including pumps, reservoirs and blood oxygenators. The company said the recall is a pre...
The families of people who died from contaminated heparin injections testified before Congress last week, expressing anger and grief over manufacturing and regulatory safety failures.