Adulterated OTCs Reach Dollar Tree, Third-Party Test Lab Missed Problems

Warning links retailers to multiple manufacturers inspected after FDASIA in 2012 pointed FDA toward inspecting all ex-US firms supplying products available in US but that had yet to be inspected for compliance. Manufacturers also were placed on import alerts to prevent their products, including cosmetics as well as drugs, from reaching US.

Dollar Trees store front

The Dollar Tree US retail chain's consumer health product chickens have come home to roost in the form of a Food and Drug Administration warning about receiving OTC drugs from foreign manufacturers noncompliant with agency regulations.

The warning published 14 November also stated that a third-party testing lab the retailer owned by Greenbrier International Inc. hired to certify OTC drugs provided by its contract manufacturers...

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