Contamination Issues Drove Drug Recalls to Record Levels in 2011

How contamination, sterility assurance, OOS and other issues caused drug recalls to spike again last year. What happened at Aidapak, H&P, Ben Venue, Hospira, Teva and other manufacturers to set a new record.

U.S. drug recalls last year soared past the record set in 2009 due to a spike in contamination-related recalls.

As in 2009, most of the spike was from a single repackaging incident. Much of the rest was from one...

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