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Article: Family planning facilities meet the challenge of Lunelle syringe recall.
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- Contraceptive Technology Update
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Family planning facilities meet the challenge of Lunelle syringe recall
Clinics scramble to issue alert, provide backup contraception
If a large segment of your patient population is using the monthly contraceptive injection Lunelle, chances are that the last few weeks have been filled with contacting patients, answering questions, and counseling on backup contraception after the manufacturer issued a voluntary recall of prefilled syringes of the product.
Pharmacia Corp. of Peapack, NJ, issued the recall on Oct. 10, 2002, due to what the company terms a lack of assurance of full potency and possible risk of contraceptive failure.
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