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Boots issues urgent recall notice on paracetamol due to major 'packaging error'

Boots has issued a recall for over 110,000 packs of paracetamol tablets due to a packaging error labeling them incorrectly as aspirin.
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency urged customers to check for batch number 241005 and return affected packs, emphasizing patient safety.
Customers are advised to stop using the product immediately and can return it for a full refund, with or without a receipt, according to the MHRA.
Boots and its supplier, Aspar Pharmaceuticals Limited, are conducting a full investigation into the packaging error.

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Boots recalls paracetamol and issues urgent ‘do not take’ warning

Boots confirmed its batch of its 500mg tablets were labelled incorrectly (Picture: Aspar Pharmaceuticals Ltd/PA Wire) Boots has issued an urgent recall for its own-brand paracetamol over a packaging error. The high street chain confirmed a batch of its 500mg tablets were labelled incorrectly. It is packaged incorrectly because the inner packs say the product is 300mg tablets of aspirin. While aspirin is an everyday painkiller, aspirin can be ris…

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Michelle Roberts Digital health editor, BBC News Boots The High Street pharmacy chain Boots is asking customers to return packs of 500-milligram paracetamol tablets because a labelling error incorrectly states they are a different painkiller, aspirin. More than 110,000 packs, with the batch number 241005 and expiry date “12/2029” on the bottom, are affected. Customers […]

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