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Recall — Firm Press Release

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Neilgen Pharma Inc. and Advent Pharmaceutical Recall All Prescription Cough and Cold Drug Products Sold on or after March 5, 2008

Contact:
Bharat Patel, President
(609) 448-5500

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — April 20, 2009 — Neilgen Pharma Inc. of Westminster, MD and Advent Pharmaceutical of East Windsor, NJ are recalling all prescription cough and cold drug products sold on or after March 5, 2008. Neilgen Pharma and Advent Pharmaceutical are contract manufacturers for these products and are recalling the listed products below due to the unapproved drug product category.

Consumers taking these recall products which is being recalled shouldstop using and return product to place of purchase and contact their physician or healthcare provider to obtain a replacement medication or prescription.

Safety and effectiveness have not been established by FDA. However, patient exposure to affected products is not likely to cause adverse health consequences. Both Neilgen Pharma and Advent Pharma have stopped the production of these products and no injuries have been reported to date.

This precautionary action is focused on removing products to the retail level only. FDA has been apprised of this action. All of the products under recall were distributed to wholesalers located in Alabama and North Carolina.

The drug products can be identified by provided name, description and lot numbers.

Inquiries related to this recall should be addressed to Advent Pharma Customer Services at 1-888-634-5522. Representative is available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST.
Adverse reactions or quality problems experienced with the use of this product may be reported to the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting program either online, by regular mail or by fax.

This recall includes all lots manufactured/distributed on or after March 5, 2008 within expiration date of the product listed below.

Advent Pharma Recalled Products

Name

Product Description

Lot Number

RY-Tann
Caplets

Phenylephrine Tannate 25 mg/ Chlorpheniramine Tannate 9 mg Caplets

806009, 806010,
806011

D-Tann CT
Caplets

Diphenhydramine Tannate/Phenylephrine Tannate/ Carbetapentane Tannate
25/10/30 mg Caplets

806003, 806004

Neilgen Pharma Recalled Products

Name

Product Description

Lot Number

D-Tann Suspension

Diphenhydramine Tannate/Phenylephrine Tannate 25/7.5 mg Suspension

L08C192, L08D171, L08E121, L08E131,

D-Tann CT
Suspension

Diphenhydramine Tannate/Phenylephrine Tannate/ Carbetapentane Tannate
25/10/30 mg Suspension

L08C201, L08E071,
L08E091

Ben-Tann
Suspension

Diphenhydramine Tannate 25 mg Suspension

L08D032, L08E061

D-Tann AT
Suspension

Diphenhydramine Tannate/ Carbetapentane Tannate 25/30 mg Suspension

L08E271, L08E281

D-Tann CD
Suspension

Diphenhydramine Tannate/ Phenylephrine Tannate/
Carbetapentane Tannate 25/15/30 mg Suspension

L08F051

D-Tann DM
Suspension

Diphenhydramine Tannate/ Phenylephrine Tannate/
Dextromethorphan Tannate 25/7.5/75 mg Suspension

L08F121, L08F131

B-Vex
Suspension

Brompheniramine Tannate 12 mg Suspension

L08D031, L08E021,
L08E051

B-Vex D
Suspension

Brompheniramine Tannate/ Phenylephrine Tannate 12/20 mg Suspension

L08D031, L08D181

BROM TANN
8 mg/DM TANN
60 mg/PSE TANN
90 mg Suspension

Brompheniramine Tannate/ Dextromethorphan Tannate/
Pseudoephedrine Tannate 8/60/90 mg Suspension

L08C181, L08D041

DM Tann
30 mg/ PE Tann/25
mg Brom Tann
10 mg Suspension

Dextromethorphan Tannate/ Phenylephrine Tannate/
Brompheniramine Tannate 30/25/10 mg Suspension

L08D091, L08D223
L08E161, L08F111

PE Tann 20 mg/
CP Tann 4 mg
Suspension

Phenylephrine Tannate/ Chlorpheniramine Tannate 20/4 mg Suspension

L08D222, L08E201
L08F102

I can vouch for this... Tried to buy a couple of boxes of 22 LR ammo and some more 16 GA shotgun shells... Three stores and all were sold out! No idea if and when they will get more. The shelves look like the bread aisle in grocery stores just before a well advertised blizzard.

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Brisk sales of ammo are leading to shortage in Texas, nationwide By ANNA M. TINSLEY
atinsley@star-telegram.com

FORT WORTH — Most days are like Christmas for Glen Furtardo.

When he opens boxes sent to the Winchester Gallery gun store in east Fort Worth, he finds out what ammunition he’ll have to stock his shelves with that day as demand for weapons and ammo soars.

Reports of heavy sales at gun stores began around the time of Barack Obama’s election as president, and months later, dealers are facing ammo shortages nationwide.

"People are panicking and buying," said Furtardo, assistant manager. "The crime rate is high, and they are flat scared of what is going to happen in the next few years with the economy and the country. Manufacturers weren’t prepared for this."

Retailers and consumers say there may be several reasons gun stores are running out of ammunition — and the cost of what is available is rising.

There’s a widespread expectation that Obama’s administration will follow through on a campaign promise to reimpose an assault weapons ban. Some people fear that taxes on ammunition, guns and other firearms-related materials might drastically increase, as they have on cigarettes.

Administration officials and Democratic leaders in Congress began saying this month that while they hope to eventually change gun control policies, they will not push the assault weapons ban for now because they know how divisive that debate would be and they don’t want to distract from other goals.

The slumping economy — and the angst it brings — is also prompting many first-time buyers to purchase guns and stockpile ammunition. But the economy could also make it hard for manufacturers to get credit to buy supplies to make all that ammo.

Whatever the reason, gun stores nationwide face back-ordered ammunition requests and in some cases a wait of six to eight months for delivery.

As the demand grows, the cost of ammunition is rising — as is the cost of guns and supplies such as cleaning kits and eye and ear protection.

"This is the same thing the oil industry did to us, but now it’s with ammunition," said Tom Mullenix of Oklahoma, who recently shopped at Cheaper Than Dirt in Fort Worth.

Federal moves

Around the November 2008 elections, some gun store owners began seeing a sharp increase in gun and ammunition sales.

This year, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder indicated that the Obama administration would consider pursuing a renewed ban, such as the one that prohibited the possession and sale of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell last week called on Congress to renew the ban to protect peace officers on the streets.

But some leaders say this may not be the right time for the ban.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have indicated that they are reluctant to move forward, and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., recently echoed that on CBS’ 60 Minutes. But she said she hasn’t given up and will "pick the time and the place, no question about it," to seek a renewal of the ban.

U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, said: "It’s a political firestorm. The closer to the election, the less enthusiasm there will be to take it up."

Rising cost

Chad Lane shoots competitively twice a month.

To save money on the 200 to 400 bullets he uses, he makes them himself. But even those costs are going up.

Last year, he could make 100 rounds for $123. Now, 100 rounds cost $165, he said.

"I’m trying to stock up," said Lane, a 20-year-old truck driver. He’s not the only one.

DeWayne Irwin, owner of Cheaper Than Dirt, is having a hard time keeping some ammunition on his shelves.

He has ordered millions of rounds but has been told that he may wait six to eight months for some of those deliveries.

Already, there’s a shortage of ammunition for the .25 ACP and .380 pistols.

And prices are rising on those and nearly all other types of ammunition. A box of 50 rounds for a 9 mm pistol, for instance, sold last year for $12.97. Today, it costs $29.97.

"It’s so bad," Irwin said. "It’s crazy. . . . And for the foreseeable future, it’s not going to get any better.

"It’s going to get worse."

New users

Part of the reason for the increased demand is that a lot of new gun owners are buying ammo in bulk to use now and to stockpile, Irwin said.

"We have a shortage of cleaning kits and eye and ear protection in addition to the ammunition shortages," he said. "That tells me people are buying them and shooting them.

"People are scared they are going to have to take their gun and fight for that bucket of carrots or whatever."

Instead of buying two boxes of ammunition, a customer might buy 10.

"People are hoarding it," Irwin said. "They think it’s either going to run out or people will be taxed more and no one will be able to afford it."

ANNA M. TINSLEY, 817-390-7610

http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1326026.html

Yes, California, There Is an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Posted by Ilya Shapiro

Last June, the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms, at least in the home for self-defense. Here’s our own Bob Levy, who masterminded the Heller litigation, talking about that decision:

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Yes, California, There Is an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Posted by Ilya Shapiro

While the Court’s ruling was a watershed in constitutional interpretation, it technically applied only to D.C., striking down the District’s draconian gun ban but not having a direct effect in the rest of the country.

Well, today the Ninth Circuit (the federal appellate court covering most Western states) ruled that the Second Amendment restricts the power of state and local governments to interfere with individual right to have guns for personal use. That is, the Fourteenth Amendment “incorporates” the Second Amendment against the states, as the Supreme Court has found it to do for most of the Bill of Rights. I rarely get a chance to say this, but the Ninth Circuit gets it exactly right.

Here’s the key part of Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain’s opinion:

We therefore conclude that the right to keep and bear arms is “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.” Colonial revolutionaries, the Founders, and a host of commentators and lawmakers living during the first one hundred years of the Republic all insisted on the fundamental nature of the right. It has long been regarded as the “true palladium of liberty.” Colonists relied on it to assert and to win their independence, and the victorious Union sought to prevent a recalcitrant South from abridging it less than a century later. The crucial role this deeply rooted right has played in our birth and history compels us to recognize that it is indeed fundamental, that it is necessary to the Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty that we have inherited. We are therefore persuaded that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment and applies it against the states and local governments.

In short, residents of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington now join D.C. residents in having their Second Amendment rights protected. And courts covering other parts of the country — most immediately the Seventh Circuit, based in Chicago — will have their chance to make the same interpretation in due course.

Just as interesting — and potentially equally significant — is the footnote Judge O’Scannlain drops at the end of the above text in response to arguments that the right to keep and bear arms, regardless of its provenance as a fundamental natural right, is now controversial:

But we do not measure the protection the Constitution affords a right by the values of our own times. If contemporary desuetude sufficed to read rights out of the Constitution, then there would be little benefit to a written statement of them. Some may disagree with the decision of the Founders to enshrine a given right in the Constitution. If so, then the people can amend the document. But such amendments are not for the courts to ordain.

Quite right.
Ilya Shapiro • April 20, 2009 @ 5:21 pm

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