Alerts

Consumers should stop using Clexane (enoxaparin) from the newly recalled batch due to impurity concerns. Check with your doctor or pharmacist to see if your supply is affected and return any contaminated product. If you have any concerns, consult your doctor.

Screening guidelines for women exposed in utero to diethylstilboestrol (DES)

Certain batches of Clexane (enoxaparin) have been recalled because of an impurity. Stop using it, check with your healthcare provider, and return any affected product. If you have concerns, consult your doctor.

Letters being dispatched by the sponsor

Continuing Australian reporting of bizarre and sometimes dangerous sleep related behaviours such as sleep walking and sleep driving in some users of zolpidem.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) continues to alert prescribing doctors, dentists, pharmacists and consumers to the uncommon but important association of the use of bisphosphonate drugs with osteonecrosis of the jaw.

Microbial contamination of the antiseptic wipes contained in the first aid kits.

The company is taking this action as a precaution because of reports of a rare, but serious, eye infection, Acanthamoeba keratitis, caused by a parasite.

Manufacture of the goods has been carried out by a manufacturer while the manufacturer did not hold a current licence, and the goods have been supplied whilst not complying with the applicable standards such as including labelling.

A connector component used in a previous version of Fisher and Paykel CPAP masks may fail prematurely.

Specific lots are being recalled because of production-line problems at AMO's manufacturing plant, which could affect the sterility of the product.

The design of the electrical power inlet to the humidifier is faulty.