The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has announced that tampering has been discovered on a few bottles of the psychiatric drug Zyprexa. Bottles have been found in which the pills intended for the treatment of schizophrenia were replaced with white tablets marked "aspirin." Letters announcing this problem have been faxed to pharmacies and health care professionals.
According to the Food and Drug Administration web site, "pharmacists in the United States have found Zyprexa 10 and 15 mg bottles which have had all of the Zyprexa tablets removed and replaced with white tablets marked "aspirin." The reports, thus far, have been confined to 60-count 10 mg and 15 mg bottles of Zyprexa. These incidents appear to be isolated and limited in scope and no injuries or adverse effects related to the tampering have been reported to date."
The Food and Drug Administration's web site is www.fda.gov.