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Pfizer recalls 1M birth control packs after mix-up

Risk of pregnancy higher in some of 1m packs involved

By Tom Murphy

 |  Associated Press  

  February 02, 2012

A manufacturing mix-up by Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug maker, led to some packets of its Lo/Ovral-28 birth control pill being distributed with the pills out of order. That means a patient could have unknowingly skipped a dose and raised her risk of an accidental pregnancy. Pfizer has recalled about 1 million packets, but the company estimates that only about 30 packets were flawed. The pills were made and shipped last year.

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