Canada/Ottawa: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare ULC, a Mississauga, Ontario establishment, recalls certain batch/lots of Tums branded Peppermint Regular Strength Antacid Tablets from the Canadian marketplace due to unidentified Foreign Matter contamination and consequential risks of choking, oral injury, internal ingestion, GI tract laceration damage, bowel obstruction and sepsis, all serious health and safety hazards requiring immediate medical intervention to minimize pain and suffering as well as prevent life-altering injury or death.
HCSC: https://bit.ly/3P3k033
Direct link: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/tums-peppermint-regular-strength-tablets-foreign-matter
Additional information:
Health Canada/Santé Canada (“HCSC”) reports the following Antacid Tablets are subject to this recall:
Filed under: Drugs, Glass or metal shatter hazard, Health Canada/Santé Canada | Tagged: Bowel Obstruction hazard, choking hazard, Drugs, fragment, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare ULC, GSK Consumer Healthcare ULC, ingestion hazards, Laceration hazards, medications, metal fragment hazard, Recalls Direct RIN: 15107-2021, TUMS, Tums branded Peppermint Regular Strength Antacid Tablets | Leave a comment »