Monday, February 25, 2013
Pharmacy agreed to retrain all staff on pharmacy procedures and to pay $650,000 to the state for a public awareness campaign about the proper use of prescription drugs.
The state Division of Consumer Affairs and CVS-Caremark reached an agreement addressing the commingling of prescription drugs at five New Jersey locations in 2012. A total of 15 parents who filled their children's chewable fluoride prescriptions in December 2011 and January 2012 at the CVS Pharmacy on Main Street in Chatham Borough reported noting tablets in the bottles that were not like the others. The strange pills turned out to be the breast cancer drug tamoxifen. Both pills are white, round and about the same size. Tamoxifen pills have the letter "M" stamped on one side and "274" on the other. Fluoride pills have the letters "SCI" on one side and the numbers "1007" on the other. Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa and the DCA said …
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Some residents say they are, others say no.
Chatham residents and customers at CVS Pharmacy on Main Street are split on whether they have confidence in prescriptions filled at CVS. The pharmacy is currently cooperating with an investigation by the New Jersey Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) into the recent comingling of Tamoxifen, a breast cancer treatment drug, with children's fluoride. Thirteen families found Tamoxifen mixed in with their fluoride prescriptions, out of about 50 customers who filled their fluoride prescriptions between Dec. 20 and Feb. 20, according to a statement by CVS Pharmacy. Several Chatham residents said the error was an honest mistake. "I've been getting my prescriptions [at CVS] for years and years and years. It's always been fine," Rick Williams, a …
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
The pharmacy was directed to turn over documents and employees were to submit for questioning.
CVS Pharmacy "is cooperating fully" with an order from the state Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) regarding the recent mix-up of Tamoxifen with children's fluoride tablets, according to DCA Director Thomas R. Calcagni. The investigation into how the mix-up, which affected 13 families, happened is now in the midst of "an intensive fact-finding process," Calcagni said. "Given the serious public safety concerns, we are rapidly and aggressively gathering all available data regarding the specific incident as well as the company's internal controls, its response to affected consumers, and its remediation efforts." The pharmacy said the error was caused by "a single medication restocking issue" and was first brought to the company's attention…
Monday, March 5, 2012
Distribution of breast cancer treatment pills with children's fluoride tablets blamed on a 'restocking issue.'
CVS Pharmacy said the mixing of Tamoxifen with children's fluoride tablets in its Main Street location was caused by "a single medication restocking issue." Michael DeAngelis, the director of public relations for CVS out of its Rhode Island corporate headquarters, wrote in a statement to Chatham Patch that 13 patients contacted by CVS out of about 50 found Tamoxifen tablets mixed in with children's fluoride pills. The problem was brought to the company's attention, the statement reads, by "a vigilant parent who contacted us on Feb. 20." "We removed the one stock bottle that we believe to be the source of this issue," the statement continues. DeAngelis also wrote CVS "is cooperating" with an order from the state Department of Consumer …
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CVS Pharmacy
471 Main St, Chatham, NJ
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Friday, March 2, 2012
About 50 families were contacted by CVS.
CVS Pharmacy has recently contacted about 50 families to warn them the breast cancer drug tamoxifen may have recently been mixed with fluoride tablets for children filled at the Main Street location in Chatham. Dr. Elsie Estrada of Chatham Pediatrics said she learned the news from a patient, and cautioned other patients to "check what you get. ... I got scared because I want them to be aware of what you are giving your children when it comes from the pharmacy," she said. According to Estrada, none of her patients reported finding tamoxifen among their children's fluoride tablets. Dr. Jennifer Shaw of Touchpoint Pediatrics was unavailable for comment, but the office did release a statement on their website. The statement reads, in part, "…
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Minute Clinic
471 Main St, Chatham, NJ
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Prescriptions for children's fluoride filled at the Main Street CVS within the past 60 days should be checked, a company spokesman said.
The CVS Pharmacy on Main Street in Chatham may have recently mixed tablets of the breast cancer drug tamoxifen with fluoride tablets for children. Parents who have filled fluoride prescriptions since Dec. 20 should check the pills for the letters "SCI" stamped on one side and the numbers "1007" stamped on the reverse side. The Tamoxifen pills have the letter "M" stamped on one side and the numbers "274" on the reverse. Both pills are round, white and about the same size. Michael DeAngelis, a spokesman for CVS, said in an emailed statement to Chatham Patch the company has been in contact with "every family whose child was dispensed a fluoride prescription from our Chatham location" in the 60 days before Feb. 20, a total of about 50 families…
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5:39 pm on Monday, March 4, 2013
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