Voluntary Consumer Level Recall of LOT: L930 ACET-650 (Acetaminophen) Suppositories Mislabelled as ACET-325

Medicell Pharmaceutical will be conducting a voluntary consumer level recall of one lot of ACET-650 (acetaminophen) suppositories, Lot: L930. Some of the ACET-650 suppositories from this batch may be mislabelled as ACET-325 on the blister packs but the external product box indicates the correct dose of 650 mg. Globally within this affected lot, only a small percentage (appropriately 1 in 5) of the acetaminophen suppositories containing 650 mg were mislabelled as 325 mg on the blister packs. Medicell Pharmaceutical has since quarantined the affected lot L930 and recalled all un-dispensed affected ACET-650 suppositories from pharmacies. Together, these accounts for 94% of Lot: L930 which was available in Singapore. None of the stocks recovered to date were found to be mislabelled. Although the risk of using the mislabelled product is small, as an added precaution, Medicell Pharmaceutical is recalling the remaining (about 6%) of the suppositories to prevent the unnecessary exposure of patients to the mislabelled suppositories. Please refer to the Dear Healthcare Professional Letter for further details.

Only abstracts of the Dear Healthcare Professional Letters (DHCPL) are provided on this website. Details of these letters can be found in the MOH Alert System, which is accessible via the Health Professionals Portal (HPP), a one-stop portal for all healthcare professionals in Singapore. Dentists, medical doctors and pharmacists may access HPP at https://hpp.moh.gov.sg and follow the procedures below to access the MOH Alert system.

Step 1: Select your profession under ‘For Healthcare Professionals’.

Step 2: Click on ‘Useful links’.

Step 3: Click on ‘MOH Alert’ and log in via Singpass.

Step 4: Click on ‘Drug Alerts’ or ‘Med Device Alerts’ to view the DHCPLs.