Recall of proprietary Chinese medicine tainted with Western drug (with photos)

The Department of Health (DH) today (January 20) instructed the registration holder of the proprietary Chinese medicine (pCm) Strong Yin Qiao Jie Du Pian (registration number: HKP-14629), Canhealth Pharmaceutical Limited, to recall from consumers all its batches, as the pCm was found to contain trace amounts of undeclared paracetamol, a Western drug, during the DH's market surveillance.