Showing posts with label alcohol swabs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alcohol swabs. Show all posts

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Medical News: Tainted Alcohol Pads Recalled - in Product Alert, Devices and Vaccines from MedPage Today

Medical News: Tainted Alcohol Pads Recalled - in Product Alert, Devices and Vaccines from MedPage Today

Heads-up. Coming to a retail pharmacy near you, a Walgreens, a CVS pharmacy or a hospital, tainted alcohol swabs. Another recall - - but alcohol swabs tainted with bacteria? Isn't that a medical oxymoron? How'd that happen?

According to this press release, the swabs, sold in boxes of 100 can cause "a non life threatening skin infection." Yum, considering the Triad Group corporation marketed these not only in the the U.S., but in Canada and Europe, too.

More info available by clicking on the link above.