CPSC Recall in 2002: CPSC, Leiner Health Products Announce Recall of Dietary Supplements Containing Iron

In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Leiner Health Products, of Carson, Calif. is voluntarily recalling about 14,000 bottles of dietary supplements containing iron. The product included in the recall is "Nature's Valley, Women's Formula Multivitamin." The supplement was sold in a brown plastic bottle with a light yellow label. The bottles have UPC code "0 41163 27006 0" located on the back of the bottle The recalled product is packaged in containers of 60-tablets and have green screw-on caps. Only bottles with lot numbers IFA2750 and IFA2751 are included in the recall. The lot numbers are written vertically down the back of the bottle.Products sold since February 2002 have child-resistant packaging and are not included in this recall.

The supplements being recalled are not packaged in child-resistant packaging as required under the Poison Prevention Packaging Act. If ingested by children, these iron-containing supplements can cause serious injury or death.

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CPSC and Leiner have not received any reports of injuries involving these products. This recall is being conducted to prevent the possibility of injuries.

Albertson's, Jewel, Osco, Sav-on and Acme sold these recalled supplement bottles nationwide from July 2001 through February 2002 for between $8 and $9.