EpiPen 2-Pak (Epinephrine) Auto-Injectors 0.3 mg, Rx only, Manufactured for Mylan Specialty L.P., Morgantown WV 26505 by Meridian Medical Technologies, Inc., Columbia, MD 21046, a Pfizer company; NDC 49502-500-02 ---- ALSO LABELED OUTSIDE THE US AS ---- Epipen Auto-Injector 0.3 mg -Bright Stock labeled for multiple countries- manufactured for Mylan by Meridian Medical Technologies, Inc., Columbia, MD 21046, a Pfizer company.
Drug Recall
Official source record
- Recall number
- D-0690-2017
- Event ID
- 76789
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Ongoing
- Recalling company
- Meridian Medical Technologies a Pfizer Company
- Reason for recall
- Defective Delivery System; reports of the device failing to activate which could result in a patient not receiving medication
- Report date
- May 10, 2017
- Recall initiation date
- March 12, 2017
- Termination date
- Not terminated as of this source record
- Distribution pattern
- Nationwide and Puerto Rico, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom. There has been no U.S. government or military distribution.
Drug product identifiers
- Manufacturer
- Viatris Specialty LLC
- Brand name
- EPIPEN
- Generic name
- EPINEPHRINE
- Substance name
- EPINEPHRINE
- Product NDCs
- 49502-500; 49502-501
- Package NDCs
- 49502-500-01; 49502-500-02; 49502-500-92; 49502-501-01; 49502-501-02; 49502-501-92
- Route
- INTRAMUSCULAR
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