US pharmaceutical huge. Pfizer on Tuesday recalled one the multitude packets of birth control pills c~ing a packaging error that could place women at risk of unintended pregnancy.

The pills, on the point half of which were the thunderbolt name Lo/Ovral-28 and the other moiety were generic norgestrel and ethinyl estradiol tablets, may subsist improperly arranged so that inactive pills are taken at the unfit time in the monthly cycle.

"An inquisition by Pfizer found that some blister packs may contain an inexact ac~ of inert or active ingredient tablets and that the tablets may subsist out of sequence," Pfizer said in a narrative.

"As a result of this packaging misdeed, the daily regimen for these parole contraceptives may be incorrect and could leave women without adequate contraception, and at put in peril for unintended pregnancy."

The pills were manufactured and packaged ~ dint of. Pfizer in New York state and commercialized ~ the agency of Akrimax Rx Products under the Akrimax bolt name in the United States.

Each vessel is supposed to contain 21 ready tablets and seven inactive pills.

"The bring about of the inexact package counts has been identified and corrected," Pfizer spokeswoman Grace Ann Arnold told AFP.

She described the question as a "mechanical and operator optical inspection systems failure on the packaging fill."

Patients who have been taking the vain lot numbers, posted on the US Food and put ~s into Administration website, should notify their physician, return the product to the pharmacy and originate using a back-up form of non-hormonal nativity control right away, Pfizer said.

Gynecologist Jill Rabin at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York urged women who receive been taking the affected pills to also get a pregnancy test.

"Sequence and content of active vs inactive pills is severe in determining efficacy, including whether or not unwanted pregnancy choose be actually prevented," she said.

"Ensure that you are not currently pregnant by taking a pregnancy exhibition if you have any symptoms of pregnancy, so as missed periods, abnormal bleeding, etc."

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