Is It Levoxyl Being Recalled, or All Levothyroxines?
Is It Levoxyl Being Recalled, or All Levothyroxines? Friday July 25, 2003 I got an email from a reader this morning that I thought was worth sharing to help anyone else who might be confused by this issue. “Mary, as much as I appreciate your information on the Levoxyl recall…it is NOT all of Levoxyl this is being recalled and I think your headlines are misleading. Only the Levoxyl manufactured by King had a problem. The problem is not with Levoxyl itself but with one of the many manufacturers of Levoxyl.” Find out what I wrote back to this reader… Dear Reader: Levoxyl is a brand of levothyroxine that is manufactured by King. You may be confusing “levothyroxine” (the generic term) with Levoxyl (which is one brand name, made by one manufacturer). Synthroid, Levoxyl, Levothroid, Unithroid — these are all brands of levothyroxine, and each is made by a specific manufacturer. In the case of Levoxyl, they are having a nationwide product recall of certain batches of their 112 size 1000-ta
