Thousands of packs of painkillers have been recalled due to safety concerns.
A total of 4,464 packs of Co-codamol 30/500 Effervescent Tablets have been recalled.
Anyone who uses the common painkiller is being urged to check their batch number, which is printed on the labels to ensure that they don’t have one of the affected packs.
The recall follows advice from a Class 1 National Patient Safety Alert.
Manufacturer, Zentiva Pharma UK Limited informed the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) that packs with Batch Number 1K10121 have been found to potentially have too little of the active ingredients (codeine phosphate and paracetamol).
This means that the tablets might not work as they should, while some others may also contain too much of the active ingredients and therefore potentially result in overdose.
The batch number details are below:
Co-codamol 30/500 Effervescent Tablets
Company Name: Zentiva Pharma UK Ltd
PL 17780/0046
Batch Number: 1K10121
Expiry Date: December 2023
Pack Size: 100 tablets
Batch Size: 4464 packs
First Distributed: 05 March 2021
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