FDA (Drugs) recall action 77956
The FDA (Drugs) publishes a recall like this one as 2 separate product records. They share a firm, a date and a cause; this page is all of them in one place, so the scale of the action is visible rather than spread across 2 pages.
Lack of sterility assurance: resulting from use of a damaged sterilizing filter for nitrogen used in the manufacturing process.
The agency’s own wording, quoted from the enforcement report.
The unit total adds up the quantities the agency stated for each product. Where a product record gave no figure, or gave a weight rather than a count, it contributes nothing — so the real total is at least this, never less.
Pfizer is recalling specific lots of Levophed (norepinephrine bitartrate) injection because a damaged sterilizing filter may have compromised sterility.
Pfizer is recalling 115,370 vials of Hydromorphone Hydrochloride Injection because a damaged sterilizing filter may have compromised sterility assurance during manufacturing.