US Company Recalls 40,000 Bottles of Eye Drops
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Prestige Brand Holdings has voluntarily recalled nearly 40,000 bottles of its Clear Eyes eye drops across the US.
The company took this step after receiving an alert from the Food and Drug Administration, known as the FDA.
The FDA is the US government agency responsible for checking the safety of food and medicine.
The recall involves concerns about sterility, which means whether a product is free from harmful germs.
If eye drops are not sterile, they could pose a risk to people who use them.
A recall happens when a company removes a product from stores because of a possible problem.
In this case, the recall is voluntary. That means Prestige Brand Holdings decided to act on its own.
The company did not wait for the FDA to force it to remove the product.
Prestige Brand Holdings is based in Tarrytown, a town in the US.
It is not yet fully clear how the possible contamination occurred.
Contamination means something harmful may have gotten into the eye drops during production.
The affected bottles belong to a specific batch, which is a group of products made at the same time.
Not all Clear Eyes products are necessarily part of this recall.
The FDA often issues alerts like this to warn the public about safety concerns.
People who have bought Clear Eyes eye drops recently are advised to check for more details from the company or the FDA.
Vocabulary10 words
- voluntarily
- doing something by choice, not because someone forces you
- FDA
- the US agency that checks if medicine and food are safe
- sterility
- being completely clean, with no harmful germs
- recall
- removing a product from stores because of a problem
- based
- having a main office or headquarters in a place
- contamination
- when something harmful gets into a product by accident
- batch
- a group of products made together at one time
- alert
- an official warning about a possible danger
- affected
- changed or involved by something, usually a problem
- agency
- a government organization with a specific responsibility
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Prestige Brand Holdings has _____ recalled nearly 40,000 bottles of its Clear Eyes eye drops across the US.
The company took this step after receiving an alert from the Food and Drug Administration, known as the _____.
The recall involves concerns about _____, which means whether a product is free from harmful germs.
A _____ happens when a company removes a product from stores because of a possible problem.
In this case, the recall is voluntary. That means Prestige Brand Holdings decided to act on its own.
Prestige Brand Holdings is _____ in Tarrytown, a town in the US.
It is not yet fully clear how the possible _____ occurred.
The affected bottles belong to a specific _____, which is a group of products made at the same time.
The FDA often issues _____ like this to warn the public about safety concerns.
People who have bought Clear Eyes eye drops recently are advised to check for more details from the company or the FDA.
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