{"id":599944,"date":"2025-11-28T21:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599944\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:06:17","slug":"walgreens-recalls-nasal-spray-over-possible-contamination-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599944\/","title":{"rendered":"Walgreens recalls nasal spray over possible contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) &#8211; Walgreens is recalling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/ires\/?Product=217306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/ires\/?Product=217306\">more than 41,000 bottles of nasal spray<\/a> because they may be contaminated with bacteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The recall is for Walgreens Saline Nasal Spray with Xylitol, which was distributed nationwide. Two lots are affected: 71409 and 71861. Those lots have expiration dates of February 28, 2027, and August 31, 2027, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The FDA says the nasal spray may be contaminated with pseudomonas lactis, a bacterium found in raw milk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Walgreens says the recall is being done out of an abundance of caution. It has been deemed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/safety\/industry-guidance-recalls\/recalls-background-and-definitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/safety\/industry-guidance-recalls\/recalls-background-and-definitions\">a Class II recall<\/a> by the FDA, which means customers who use the spray could experience temporary or medically reversible adverse health effects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Customers should return the spray to the store for a full refund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. Gray News contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) &#8211; Walgreens is recalling more than 41,000 bottles of nasal spray because they may be contaminated with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4315],"tags":[2460,105,4326,29424,188235,16,15,22176,188236,188237,188234],"class_list":["post-599944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-fda","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-nasal-spray","tag-nasal-spray-recall","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-walgreens","tag-walgreens-nasal-spray","tag-walgreens-nasal-spray-recall","tag-walgreens-recall"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115629364784024453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}