Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TEVA)

[JLS]

Just curious ...

"... the impurity in some ranitidine products increases over time ..."

If an impurity is in a packaged (spelled sealed) product, how does the impurity increase over time? And how often is some? And though packaged, is it alive, and is that how it increases -- feeding on other ingredients?

Seems pretty vague. The FDA also made a request, not an order. That's because they don't have proof ... they only have undefined probabilities.

Then it continues: "... and when stored at higher than room temperatures ...".

OK, how much higher? Five degrees F? Five-hundred degrees F?

Onward: "... and may result in consumer exposure to unacceptable levels...".

May? Okay, give me some percentages. One percent? Five percent? Fifty percent? And what exactly is an acceptable level?

"NDMA is a probable human carcinogen ..."

I know exactly what that means. The cancer tests that humans have devised have all been proven (many years ago) to be faulty. Finally, humans have become honest enough to accept that; well, at least some of the time.