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FDA gives thumbs-up to redesigned labels for some Merck meds

Agency commends Merck’s efforts to reduce pharmacy selection errors. The company’s Label Standardization Projects includes revisions for 34 container labels for 16 oral solid-dose drugs.

Add pharmacy selection errors, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, labels, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and it may well sound like an alarming recipe. But that’s not the case this time.

In fact, in a June 10 announcement, the FDA announced the “approval of Merck’s redesigned drug container labels that include a new standardized format to improve readability and provide better information on product and strength differentiation.”

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