Generic Lipitor Recalled

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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2009 file photo, a bottle of Pfizer's Lipitor is shown in New York. Eight drugmakers are being sued by a consumer advocacy group that alleges their programs offering coupons to reduce copayments for brand-name medicines are illegal. Community Catalyst alleges that the couponing programs violate federal bribery laws because they're meant to conceal information about the payments from health insurance plans. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2009 file photo, a bottle of Pfizer's Lipitor is shown in New York. Eight drugmakers are being sued by a consumer advocacy group that alleges their programs offering coupons to reduce copayments for brand-name medicines are illegal. Community Catalyst alleges that the couponing programs violate federal bribery laws because they're meant to conceal information about the payments from health insurance plans. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)

Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. has recalled dozens of lots of its generic version of cholesterol drug Lipitor because some may contain tiny glass particles, the latest in a string of manufacturing deficiencies that once led U.S. regulators to bar imports of the Indian company's medicines.

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