Wednesday, September 5, 2012

New Jersey children almost poisoned to death with fluoride pills pharmacy


More than a dozen families in New Jersey were shocked to learn how recently that some of the pills fluoride alleged that he had received from a CVS / pharmacy in Chatham were actually pills tamoxifen for the treatment of a chemotherapy drug used to treat breast cancer. ABC News reported that an unknown error in some of these families manage these chemotherapy drugs have brought their children may have instead of fluoride tablets, a monumental mistake, fatal consequences.

"CVS / pharmacy has developed industry-leading pharmacy systems and processes to ensure the safety of the prescription filling process, including inventory control that improves hold similar-looking drugs in separate areas, such as fluoride tablets and tamoxifen, "CVS Caremark said recently in a statement on the matter. Finally, fluoride pills would be in a completely different area of ​​the pharmacy as tamoxifen have been stored. And contrary to what is claimed by CVS Caremark through the two pills look like that, the same can be said of all types of pills - in fact, tamoxifen pills and pills of fluoride are so similar, particularly as affected both carry unique identifiers to right pills.

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