Nordic Countries Join Race To Withdraw OTC Ranitidine

OTC presentations of ranitidine have been pulled from shelves in Denmark, Finland and Norway after the European Medicines Agency launched a review into the drug over safety fears.

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Denmark, Finland and Norway are the latest European countries to withdraw from sale certain OTC ranitidine-based drugs following a worldwide alert over the ingredient’s safety.

National regulators in the three Nordic countries have withdrawn from sale all OTC and prescription versions of ranitidine in response to findings by the European Medicines Agency and US Food and Drug Administration that certain presentations of the drug were contaminated with NDMA, a probable human carcinogen

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