Here is a headache no drugmaker wants to endure. Last July, Novartis began recalling a few million bottles of samples of different medicines that were distributed to physicians, because routine testing determined that a chemical used in shrink wrap packaging was found to leech into some tablets. The incident appears to be an unusual instance in which samples given to doctors have been yanked. The voluntary recall amounted to 127 lots of samples for three blood pressure treatments - Exforge, Tekturna and Diovan – as well as the Lescol cholesterol pill and the Stalevo Parkinson’s drug, although a Novartis spokeswoman was unable to say many bottles were involved in the recall, although The Wall Street Journal reported about 5.3 million bottles were involved.
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