The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7456 p694
16 June 2007

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Faulty hospital pregnancy test kits recalled by Unipath

Women who have recently had negative pregnancy tests at hospitals and who remain worried that they might be pregnant have been told to seek advice from community pharmacists, among others.

The advice was issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency after The Journal went to press last week following Unipath’s recall of lot HG0050 of Clearview HCG pregnancy test kits. A manufacturing fault meant that the kits could give false negative results. The batch of around 80,000 kits was distributed to hospitals in the UK and Europe in March and April. About 100 test kits are believed to be affected by the fault.

Unipath’s Clearblue home pregnancy test kit is not affected.