Manuphacturing Phail

One morning at a pharmacy I was working at, a customer came in to get something to relieve colic in her infant and Donnalix was something she had been recommended. When I grabbed it off the shelf I noticed a spelling mistake in their packaging. See if you can find it...

You get a theta for your labelling!


Did you find it?

If you didn't see it, and if you aren't in the health industry I don't expect you to, the mistake was Atropine spelt Atrorine! If I did that in a pharmaceutical lab I'd get an immediate theta. Theta is a fancy way of drawing a '0' on your lab report because you failed miserably!

This error is the real reason Donnalix Infant was taken off the market, not because parents were accidentally overdosing their children!
***UPDATE*** 16/06/2010 - According to the Wyeth website here, Donnalix Infant was not taken off the market. Must have just been discussions in the industry coinciding with the Pharmacy I worked in at the time removing the product from their shelves by choice. Also notice I have embedded links to the Wyeth consumer website in this story regarding Donnalix. ***END UPDATE***

Needless to say, I recommended the woman not take the Donnalix for her infant. I don't particularly like those kinds of products and most products for colic aren't effective anyway.