Blood pressure drug recall

Potential carcinogen traces prompts action as “precautionary measure” Pharmaceutical company Pfizer is recalling some batches of hypertension medications containing quinapril and pausing supply of others, according to an alert from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). The TGA says that it is “investigating potential contamination of quinapril medicines with very low levels of the nitrosamine impurity N-nitroso-quinapril