Business News August 16 Chinese instructions mark the wrong children to take the dose higher than the correct dose twice the Taobao drug sales can be returned

Recently, a batch of “Kezhi + C cold pills” produced by GlaxoSmithKline has been recalled in Hong Kong and Macau in China. The reason is that the product's Chinese manual labeling is wrong and the children's dosage is wrong, higher than the correct dosage. Doubled.

The drug can be purchased through the Internet in the mainland, Taobao's purchasing price is between 52 to 60 yuan.

GlaxoSmithKline: No problem with drug quality

A spokesperson for the Hong Kong Department of Health pointed out that the incident only involved one batch of "Keizhi + C typhoid pills" and the lot number was XPN161R. The English instructions and box surfaces in the box are marked on the Chinese and English packaging. Children (aged 6 and above) should be taken as “one tablet every four to six hours if necessary” and it is correct.

However, the instructions for use on the Chinese manual indicate that “two tablets every four to six hours are needed” is an error that is twice as much as the correct dosage.

A spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline stressed that the recall did not involve drug quality issues. To avoid confusion, the company decided to return the wrong prescription drug to the public after the consent of the Hong Kong Department of Health.

The Department of Health urges medical staff and retailers to immediately stop supplying the batch of products. Consumers should also stop taking them immediately.

Paracetamol will be exceeded if mislabeled

It is reported that more than 1600 boxes of relevant products have flowed into the market in Hong Kong and Macau.

GlaxoSmithKline said that there has been no report of adverse reactions after the public took the drug.

The Hong Kong Department of Health has stated that it will continue to investigate and monitor the recall and has informed the Macao drug administration authorities to take action.

Cui Junming, vice president of the Hong Kong Hospital Pharmacists Association, pointed out that this type of cold pill contains 500 mg of paracetamol per tablet. Children under 12 years of age should not take more than 2.6 grams of this ingredient every day. Therefore, if parents use the wrong instructions to take drugs for children, Exceeded the standard problem.

However, Cui Junming pointed out that patients need to take as much as 7.8 grams of paracetamol a day to poison and injure the liver.

● Purchasing purchasing drugs can be returned

The reporter found out in a Taobao shopping shop that in the product introduction, the store description reads "2 tablets each time, 3-4 times a day", that is, taking two tablets every 3-4 hours, more than "every 4 - 6 hours a "normal intake.

In the morning, Zhao Jingpeng, public relations manager of Taobao.com, said in an interview with this reporter: “We will immediately report to the drug administration department and monitor the product.”

The owner of a Macao drug purchasing store told this reporter that according to local regulations, the medicine can be returned and returned. If medicines are already used, "it's not easy to say."