Official announcements
Safety warnings
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Medicines
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25/10/2018
No acute danger, recall purely as a precautionary measure
Safety warnings
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messages in brief
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25/10/2018
Situation in Austria: The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care has received information that several packages of the drug Jakavi 15 mg tablets, for which there is an urgent suspicion of counterfeiting, have entered the legal distribution chain as…
Safety warnings
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Blood & Tissue
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22/10/2018
The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care has been informed by the Italian authority that (in addition to the regions already announced) in Barletta-Andria-Trani (Apulia Region), due to the detection of WNV NAT positive horses, ID WNV NAT testing has been introduced for donors of blood and blood components.
Safety warnings
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Blood & Tissue
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18/10/2018
The Federal Office for Public Health Safety has been notified by the Spanish authority that two human autochthonous cases of dengue virus infection have occurred in Spain.
Safety warnings
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Blood & Tissue
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16/10/2018
The Federal Office for Public Health Safety has been informed by the Italian authority that confirmed human WNV cases have occurred in Genoa (Liguria Region) and in Asti (Piemonte Region), in addition to the regions already announced.
Safety warnings
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Blood & Tissue
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15/10/2018
The Federal Office for Public Health Safety has been informed by the French authority that, in addition to the already known regions, further confirmed human WNV infections (meningitis/encephalitis) have occurred in the Pyrénées-Orientales region.
Recall
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Veterinary Medicines
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11/10/2018
The marketing authorization holder has informed its supplied customers by letter dated 09/10/2018 that an atypical trend in the level of non-specified impurities has been detected in terbinafine - one of the three active ingredients in Osurnia.…
Recall
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Medicines
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11/10/2018
The marketing authorization holder informed the supplied customers via its distribution partner in a letter dated 01.10.2018 that the urology catheters of the company ConvaTec may exhibit unsterility. In tests conducted with the packaging of the…
Safety warnings
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Blood & Tissue
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11/10/2018
The Federal Office for Public Health Safety has been notified by the French authority that a human autochthonous case of dengue virus infection has occurred in the Hèrault region.
Safety warnings
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Blood & Tissue
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09/10/2018
The Federal Office for Public Health Safety has been informed by the French authorities that, in addition to the already known regions, further confirmed human WNV infections (meningitis/encephalitis) have occurred in the regions of Vaucluse, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var, Corsica and Monaco.