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Safety Alert for Durex condoms

According to Health Ministry (Panama), this safety alert involved a device in Panama that was produced by N/A.

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Alerts provide important information and recommendations about products. Even though an alert has been issued, it does not necessarily mean a product is considered to be unsafe. Safety Alerts, addressed to health workers and users, may include recalls. They can be written by manufacturers, but also by health officials.

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  • Type of Event
    Safety alert
  • Date
    2018-05-30
  • Event Date Posted
    2018-05-30
  • Event Country
    Panama
  • Event Source
    HMP
  • Event Source URL
    http://www.minsa.gob.pa/informacion-salud/alertas-y-comunicados?title=&field_decree_date_value%5Bvalue%5D%5Byear%5D=2018&page=2
  • Notes / Alerts
    Panamanian data is current through January 2019. All of the data comes from the Health Ministry (Panama), except for the categories Manufacturer Parent Company and Product Classification.
    The Parent Company and the Product Classification were added by ICIJ.
    The parent company information is based on 2017 public records. The device classification information comes from FDA’s Product Classification by Review Panel, based on matches of recall data from the U.S. and Panama.
  • Extra notes in the data
  • Reason
    The spanish agency for medicines and health products (aemps) has reported that it has learned, through the competent authorities of serbia, of the distribution in the serbian market of counterfeit condom units of the "durex" trademark. products affected: the aemps statement mentions that falsifications of four different models of "durex" condoms have been detected in 3-unit presentations. on the product label, the model name is in english ("classic", "extra safe", "tickle me" and "feel thin") and the rest of the information in the hungarian, bulgarian, romanian and serbian languages.

Device

Durex condoms
  • Model / Serial
  • Manufacturer
    N/A

Manufacturer

N/A
  • Source
    HMP