JoNel Aleccia of MSNBC.com continues her reporting on tainted and recalled alcohol prep pads, finding that “A quarter of the nation’s Veterans Health Administration medical centers and the agency’s outpatient mail-order pharmacy used recalled alcohol prep pads and other products …”
The FDA has identified problems with contamination and sterilization at the plant where the products were manufactured and hundreds of millions of products were recalled because of the threat of bacterial contamination.
The VA says “38 of the country’s 152 major veterans medical centers in 30 states and the District of Columbia removed recalled wipes, pads and other products from use” and “products were removed from the Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy, which provides more than 97.4 million prescriptions a year to veterans.”
Previously, the FDA the company that manufactured the wipes refused to identify which hospitals used the products, but Aleccia has obtained and published a list of the affected VA facilities.
Recalled povidone iodine prep pads from the same company also have been included in first aid kits intended for animals, such as this equine first-aid kit.
Previous coverage:
- Parents blame toddler’s death on tainted wipes
- FDA knew of problems at plant that made tainted wipes
- FDA defends actions on tainted wipes
- Colo. hospital blew whistle on tainted wipes
- Pressured firm closes line that made tainted wipes
- Infection risk triggers new recall of wipes
- Two-thirds of alcohol wipes contaminated
- FDA asks maker of tainted wipes to stop production
- Senators question FDA’s response to tainted wipes
- Wipe-maker shuts doors after U.S. Marshals arrive
- Feds seize $6 million in products from wipe-maker
