News Article: Pharmacy Technician’s Vigilance Spurs Drug Recall


Happy Friday! We can definitely vouch for the diligence of our own implementation specialists at RxSafe (they're all pharmacy techs), but this is really impressive.

BETHESDA, MD 13 Aug 2015—Data from FDA suggest that responding to recalls—including the 1647 recalls of drug products and 992 biological product recalls that were initiated last year—is a routine part of hospital pharmacy practice.

What may not be routine is for the vigilance of a staff member to precipitate a product recall, as was recently the case at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

- See more at: http://www.ashp.org/menu/News/PharmacyNews/NewsArticle.aspx?Source=News&Type=Rss&Id=4239#sthash.Uynca7k2.dpuf

Via American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Source: News Article : Pharmacy Technician’s Vigilance Spurs Drug Recall


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