THE European Medicines Agency has extended its review of impurities in valsartan medicines, after discovering very low levels of N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA) in another active substance, losartan, made by India's Hetero Labs.
The precautionary review will now include losartan, olmesartan, candesartan and irbesartan.
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