FDA: Don鈥檛 Use Cantrell Compounded Drug Products
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday health care professionals and patients not to use drug products produced by Cantrell Drug Co., including opioid products and other drugs intended for sterile injection, citing serious deficiencies in the company鈥檚 compounding operations. 鈥淒espite the FDA鈥檚 concerns about egregious conditions observed at Cantrell鈥檚 facility, during several inspections, with the most recent in 2017, the company continued to compound and distribute drugs without adequately addressing their potentially dangerous conditions,鈥� said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. 鈥淭his reckless activity threatens patient safety and will not be tolerated.鈥� FDA has sought legal action to prevent the company from further producing and distributing drugs. It said health care professionals should immediately check their medical supplies, quarantine any drug products from the company and not administer them to patients. The agency is not aware of illness reports associated with the products, but asks health care professionals to report any associated adverse events or quality problems to its program.