CPSC, Inverness Medical Nutritionals Group Announce Recall of Iron Supplements

Recall Insight

This CPSC action (record #06116) was formally reported on March 16, 2006. It is classified under Moderate severity, with a current status of Active. Inverness Medical Nutritionals Group, of Freehold, N.J. is listed as the recalling firm. Federal records indicate About 64,000 units are affected.

The documented reason for this recall is: The iron supplements are not in child-resistant packaging, as required by the Poison Prevention Packaging Act. Ingesting multiple iron supplements at once can cause serious injury or death to young children. Distribution information was not included in the agency filing, so consumers should assume broad potential exposure until the firm publishes point-of-sale details. The remedy documented by the agency is: Consumers should keep this product out of reach of children and return it to Walgreens for a free replacement. — consumers holding this product should act on that instruction rather than relying on general guidance.

To put this record in context, PlainRecalls indexes 83,949 recalls across the FDA, CPSC, NHTSA and USDA FSIS going back to 1995. Within the same product category, the database holds 6 closely related recalls. That clustering is a signal — repeated actions in a narrow category often indicate a systemic quality-control issue, a supplier-wide contamination, or a design defect that has propagated across product lines. This recall is roughly 20 years old; older recalls can remain relevant because many units enter resale, rental, and secondary-market channels where the original warning never reaches the end user. Always cross-check the recall number against the official agency page before relying on any summary.