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Drug-Toxic ChemicalsETHEX Corporation Oversized Drug Recalls Prompt
Lawsuits

ETHEX, one of the largest US generic drug manufacturers of narcotics,
cardiac drugs, prenatal and iron supplement products, is defending
numerous personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits after it recalled
so many oversized drugs that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
finally had to shut down the company. What happened to prompt these
lawsuits? Our legal experts explains.

Recall after recall – after recall

Dan Thornburgh, a Florida attorney whose firm represents those injured
by dangerous or defective drugs, says that KV Pharmaceuticals Company,
a generic pharmaceutical manufacturer and the parent corporation to
ETHEX Corporation and Ther-Rx (the promotion, marketing and
distribution arms of drugs manufactured by KV Pharmaceuticals), put
thousands of people at risk of serious injury or death by
manufacturing and releasing oversized drugs before issuing recall
after recall – after recall. Thornburgh provided us with the following
timeline of the circumstances surrounding the recalls:

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6/2008: Between June 9th and June 12th of 2008, ETHEX issued a
 recall of a single lot of morphine sulfate, 60 milligrams,
 extended release tablets. In the FDA press release that was
 issued, the company was fearful that there was a possibility that
 oversized tablets were released at both the wholesale and retail
 levels. More specifically, they believed they had a problem with
 the manufacturing of the morphine sulfate tablet in June of 2008
 that put patients at risk of receiving more than the intended dose
 of the morphine sulfate than they expected.

6/13/08: The FDA announced that ETHEX and KV Pharmaceuticals had
 expanded their earlier recall to include more than just one lot.
 They now believed that numerous lots were defectively manufactured
 between the dates of June 2006 and May of 2008.

12/08: The FDA did an inspection of the manufacturer's plant
 located in Missouri.

12/23/08: The manufacturers announced the recall of their
 hydromorphine product two-milligram tablets.

1/8/09: The manufacturers expanded their recall yet again. This
 time, it included generic products such as propafenone,
 isosorbide, additional morphine extended and immediate release
 tablets and dextroamphetamine sulfites.

2/09: The manufacturers again expanded their recall. This time, it
 included prescription iron and prenatal supplements.

3/09: The FDA shut down the ETHEX Corporation and KV
 Pharmaceuticals. They entered into a consent decree with the FDA
 which essentially stopped or suspended the manufacture of every
 drug made by those manufacturers or distributors.

Product liability lawsuits filed

Numerous product liability lawsuits have been filed against the
manufacturers by those who were injured, or by the families of those
who died, after unknowingly overdosing on drugs made by ETHEX and KV
Pharmaceuticals. Product liability attorneys say that the
manufacturers' blatant disregard for consumer safety was simply
inexcusable and is likely to play a part in the outcome of those
lawsuits.

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The foregoing article has been prepared by an attorney who is a
regular contributor to FreeAdvice, and is now undergoing review by the
site's editorial staff.

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