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Triad Alcohol Swab Recall and How it Affects YOU

This notice affects almost everyone, whether you have MS, Migraines (40 million Americans) or almost anything (1 in 5 Americans has a disability).

If you are a doctor or other health professional, please read this as you may use alcohol swabs in your offices.

On January 5^th, 2011 the FDA announced that Triad Alcohol Swabs have been voluntarily recalled due to potential contamination with bacteria.

Dr. Daniel Kantor has spent the last few days tirelessly clarifying for the MS community what this means in terms of the injectable therapies:

Here are the responses from 3 of the medications:

· Bayer’s Betaseron

· Teva’s Copaxone

· Novartis's Extavia

According to Biogen Idec, their Avonex is packaged with Dukal Alcohol Swabs, which we have clarified (with Dukal and Biogen Idec) that it is not a Triad product and is NOT part of the recall.

EMD Serono and Pfizer’s Rebif is not packaged by the company with alcohol swabs, and any alcohol swabs included in the shipment of this medication, is put in there by the specialty pharmacy distributors.

Neurologique always attempts to be your trusted source for timely MS news, and as such, Dr. Kantor has prepared a video demonstrating the Triad Alcohol Pads as compared to three of the others (the Dukal pad was not shown).

Since these alcohol swabs get rebranded by different companies, it is important to clarify which company produced your alcohol swab. If you are uncertain, do not use the alcohol swab and use other methods (as described in the press releases above) to clean the area before injection.

- Dr. Daniel Kantor, MD
Medical Director
Neurologique


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