MORE blood pressure pills recalled over carcinogen fears

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A fourth round of blood pressure pills have been recalled over fears they may contain carcinogens. 

The move is part of an ongoing scramble to weed out drugs made in China and India, and dispatched across the world, that were contaminated with NMBA, NMDA, and NDEA - all potential cancer-causing chemicals.

The scandal was kept under wraps for a year before health officials finally acknowledged the contamination - and that more than two million people had been exposed.

Once it broke, it prompted a global shortage of the most commonly used blood pressure drugs - valsartan, irbesartan and losartan - that is still dragging on almost a year

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