People with Diabetes Asked to Check their Insulin Pens or Pen Cartridges because of Quality Concerns

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have asked people with diabetes to check their insulin pens or pen cartridges at home after a manufacturing fault has resulted in a precautionary recall across Europe of 33 specific batches of insulin pens and cartridges.



The products affected by the European recall are the NovoMix 30 Flexpen 100U/ml pre-filled pen and the NovoMix 30 Penfill 100U/ml cartridge. The manufacturing problem concerns a fault in the filling of the cartridges, which resulted in some batches of pens and cartridges containing too much or too little insulin.

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