Americans who take medication for high blood pressure may want to check their medicine cabinets after thousands of bottles of a prescription drug were recalled nationwide.
New Jersey-based Macleods Pharma USA is recalling certain lots of Olmesartan Medoxomil, Amlodipine and Hydrochlorothiazide Tablets after the medication failed to meet federal quality standards, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The recall covers 3,528 30-count bottles from lot 12251163A and 216 90-count bottles from lot 12251163B. Both lots expire May 31, 2027.
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Consumers can check their prescription bottles for the lot number and National Drug Code, or NDC. The recalled 30-count bottles have NDC 33342-246-07, while the 90-count bottles have NDC 33342-246-10.
The FDA listed the reason for the recall as “failed dissolution specifications,” meaning the pills did not dissolve as required during testing.
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The agency classified the action as a Class II recall, meaning use of the affected medication “may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences” but the likelihood of serious health consequences is considered remote.
Macleods Pharma USA initiated the recall Oct. 7, and the FDA classified it Oct. 26. The recall remains ongoing and affects products distributed nationwide.
The recall comes weeks after another blood pressure medication was pulled from shelves over a similar issue.
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India-based Inventia Healthcare Ltd. recalled 13,567 bottles of 25-milligram chlorthalidone tablets in September after the medication failed dissolution testing, according to the FDA.
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Chlorthalidone is used to treat high blood pressure and fluid retention, according to Mayo Clinic.
Macleods Pharma USA could not immediately be reached by FOX Business for comment.

California voters are set to cast their ballots to determine the fate of a proposed billionaire tax that could see the Golden State lose wealthy residents and may not deliver the revenue advocates hope for.
The ballot measure, known as Proposition 40, would impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on taxpayers and trusts with assets in excess of $1 billion and use the revenue to fund state healthcare programs, public education and food assistance.
The tax would be payable over five years and covered assets would include businesses, securities, art, collectibles and intellectual property – though real property, pensions and certain retirement accounts would be exempt.
The threat of the wealth tax, which as drafted would apply retroactively to those who were California residents as of Jan. 1, 2026, has caused some prominent billionaires to move out of the state or relocate businesses – including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Oracle founder Larry Ellison and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.
Max Levchin, the billionaire co-founder of Affirm Holdings, told Bloomberg on Monday that he would “probably” leave California if voters pass the wealth tax.
“I love California. I think it’s beautiful,” Levchin said. “But the notion of the popular opinion saying ‘Actually, we’re totally OK with asset seizure because we just really, really need it,’ I just think that is so wrong.”
Proponents of the billionaire tax argue that it would bring in about $100 billion in revenue from the roughly $2.3 trillion in wealth held by the state’s billionaires in mid-2026, though a recent analysis suggests the tax could permanently shrink the state’s tax base over the long-term and with losses exceeding near-term revenue gains.
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Advocates contend that billionaires typically pay little in income taxes due to deriving much of their wealth from investments, so the wealth tax would raise additional revenue even after accounting for some departures and reductions in income taxes paid in California by those who leave the state.
UC Berkeley economists Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez co-authored a working paper with Paris School of Economics’s Jasper Boll that estimated the wealth tax could raise about $100 billion over the five-year collection window with minimal impact on income tax revenue, as billionaires pay about $3 billion a year, which represents 2.5% of California’s income tax base.
“We estimate that it could raise about $100 billion, with comparatively minor impacts on income tax revenue,” the economists wrote in the working paper. “Using empirical estimates of mobility responses to wealth taxation, we find that an annual wealth tax on California billionaires could raise substantial additional revenue even after accounting for income tax losses due to mobility.”
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However, a working paper by a pair of economists at the Hoover Institution, senior fellow Joshua Rauh and research fellow Benjamin Jaros, found that announced departures have reduced that tax base by about 30% and estimated collections would fall in the $28 billion to $36 billion range after assuming 10% avoidance by those subject to the tax.
They also conducted a net present value (NPV) analysis of the lost income tax revenue from billionaires, who contribute an estimated $3.3 billion to $5.8 billion per year, finding that over time those lost collections more than offset revenue received via the one-time wealth tax, with an estimated NPV of negative $38.9 billion.
It found that the NPV would be negative in about 85% of simulated outcomes, while it would be relatively small in about 15% of outcomes. Positive NPV suggests value is created on a net basis, while a negative NPV suggests a net loss over the time horizon.
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“These findings suggest that the Billionaire Tax Act will not fulfill the primary functions for which it was designed. Although the Act was designed to raise revenue, behavioral response prior to voting has eroded most of the projected tax base,” Rauh and Jaros wrote in their working paper.
“While the Act was framed as addressing a fiscal emergency, its one-time collections are roughly offset – and in most scenarios more than offset – by the present value of permanently lost income tax revenue,” the economists added.
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The Hoover Institution economists also noted that while the billionaire tax is being presented as a one-time measure, the legislature could amend it with a two-thirds vote without consulting voters – giving policymakers the ability to impose additional wealth taxes in the future.

TINDOUF, Algeria, Nov 2 (Reuters) – At 51, Binina Mohamed is as old as the ​conflict that drove her from the Western Sahara region into a refugee camp in southern Algeria, where she has spent her ‌life among tens of thousands of others facing a similar fate.
The confrontation over her native land, often described as Africa’s longest-running territorial dispute, was brought back into focus this weekend by a UN Security Council spat that led to the end of a decades-old peacekeeping mission there.
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The Western Sahara conflict pits Morocco, which considers the territory its own, against the Algeria-backed ​Polisario Front, a political and military organisation that has been seeking a separate state there since the departure of former colonial power Spain ​in 1976. Peacekeepers have watched over the territory since 1991, when the UN brokered a ceasefire ending years of ⁠guerrilla warfare between the two sides.
Thousands of Sahrawis fled hostilities to the Tindouf area in southwestern Algeria, where the Polisario administers five refugee camps.
During a ​rare visit to the region for foreign media outlets, organised by the Polisario, Mohamed described how her daughters, now in their twenties and thirties, had never visited ​the region where she was from.
“I do not want them to reach the age of 50 without seeing their homeland,” she told Reuters.
One of her daughters, Safia Al-Saleh, 33, said she hoped her own two children would have a different future.
“I want my children and my grandchildren to study and grow up in their own country, not to grow ​up like us here, as refugees, with nothing,” she said.
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The uncertainty facing refugees such as Mohamed has become a central point of contention ​in the latest diplomatic battle over Western Sahara.
The dispute heated up last year when the UN Security Council backed Rabat’s plan to give the region autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty ‌as the “most ⁠feasible” way to resolve the conflict.
After abstaining last year, Russia this year vetoed a US-drafted resolution that would have reaffirmed that position. When a competing Russian resolution was defeated, it left the UN mission without a renewal of its mandate.
In a speech at the council, Algeria’s UN envoy defended the Polisario’s stance and highlighted a decline in aid and the suffering of refugees in the camps.
Morocco’s envoy in turn said the harsh conditions in the camps were the responsibility ​of Algeria, a longtime Russian ally, ​which he accused of denying the ⁠refugees their right to return home. He urged Algiers to allow the UN to register the refugees, saying other nationalities were present there.
Algeria and the Polisario say over 160,000 live in the Tindouf refugee camps. UNHCR says it provides ​assistance to an estimated 90,000 of the “most vulnerable” refugees there.
Morocco disputes both numbers, citing a lack of a ​UN census, and accuses ⁠the Polisario and Algeria of using Sahrawis as political pawns, which Algiers denies.
As the dispute grinds on, Mohamed’s family described daily problems in the camp, including access to water and the harsh climate.
More than 80% of the camps’ residents rely on humanitarian assistance to meet basic food needs, the World Food Programme said in a ⁠statement earlier ​this year.
Another of Mohamed’s daughters, Aisha Salem, a 24-year-old fighter with the Polisario Front, said ​she wanted a different future for the next generation: “We don’t want to live the way our grandparents did, through displacement and deprivation,” she said.
Mohamed echoed the sentiment. “We want stability. We are tired of ​being refugees,” she said. “The one who has no land has no life.”
Reporting by Abdelaziz Boumzar; Writing by Dina Sakr; Editing by Alexander Dziadosz and William Maclean

British adventurer Karl Bushby completes 28-year journey
British adventurer Karl Bushby has completed his 31,000-mile (50,000 km) journey from South America to Hull in the UK, reuniting with his mother at the family home 28 years after setting off.
In November 1998, the former paratrooper, then aged 29, set off from Punta Arenas, Chile, to complete an unbroken path back home, without breaking two self-imposed rules: not to return to the UK until the end of the journey, and not to use transport to advance.
Earlier, crowds gathered in Hull’s city centre to welcome Bushby, before he set off to complete the final few miles home to his mother Angela Bushby.
Reaching the front door, he said: “It’s good to be home. It feels surreal.”
Bushby’s journey took him to four continents, with key moments including navigating through the dense jungles of the Darién Gap, crossing the frozen Bering Strait and, more recently, swimming the English Channel.
During a press conference that followed the reunion with his mother, he confirmed: “I’m hanging my boots up.”
As they had agreed years earlier, Bushby’s mother, Angela, waited for him at her home in Sutton Park, where she raised him.
He appeared almost lost for words, telling the BBC moments after the meeting: “It feels surreal. It’s the end of a 28-year journey.”
His mother, who had not seen him for a decade, told Bushby: “Where have you been?”
She told the media: “It’s good to have him home.
“I feel relieved.”
Bushby said he was “still processing” being home, admitting his head was “one big blurry mess”.
Asked what is next for him, he said: “I have a story to tell.”
As well as working with acclaimed German filmmaker, Werner Herzog, on a documentary, he confirmed he is working on a second book about his travels.
Bushby admitted he never expected such a homecoming.
Addressing a large crowd in the city centre, Bushby, when he was received by the lord mayor, Maria Coward, said: “There has never been a welcome home like this, I am sure. It’s madness. An enormous thank you.”
He added: “The biggest team – Earth – got me back here.”
On Sunday, when he crossed the Humber Bridge into East Yorkshire, he was met by his 36-year-old son Adam, his 12-year-old granddaughter whom he had never met, his father and brothers.
“It was amazing,” Bushby said of that reunion.
After returning to the UK, Bushby said he expected to struggle in the coming days and weeks as he readjusted to normal life.
“Everything that I am and everything that I know of me is going to go away,” he said. “And that’s going to be a problem. You’re going to have the old identity crisis, because Karl is this [an adventurer] and has been for half his life.
“I think the old adage goes… the only thing worse than a man who can’t fulfil his dreams is a man who’s fulfilled his dreams… because then what?”
Bushby previously said he had always had a “wanderlust”, and his opportunity to embark on this journey came following the end of his marriage, with his wife returning to Northern Ireland with their son.
Bushby said only about 15 of the 28 years were spent walking, with struggles obtaining visas, the 2007 global economic crash and Covid blamed for delays.
Bushby often retreated to Mexico, where costs are low, between stints.
Under the rules he set for his journey, he could not return to the UK to meet his family.
On rare occasions, he met his son and parents, who are divorced, in other countries.
Bushby said he set off as “penniless backpacker”, often relying on handouts, or occasionally being forced to eat food discarded on roadsides.

Suspected cyberattacks have triggered temperatures to rise in grocery store refrigeration systems in a growing number of countries across Europe.
Overnight temperature spikes were recorded in stores in Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Luxembourg and Sweden. On Monday, retailers and authorities pointed to alleged cyberattacks that underscored the vulnerability of systems that once largely operated mechanically.
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The head of ⁠⁠⁠⁠Sweden’s national cybersecurity centre, John Billow, confirmed on Monday to the Reuters news agency that the centre ⁠⁠⁠⁠is responding to ⁠⁠⁠⁠multiple incidents affecting store cooling systems.
“We have in recent weeks … identified that we have quite a lot of exposed operational technology devices in Sweden that we have been clear about the necessity to update or patch,” he said.
The temperature of freezers in several Swedish stores rose suddenly overnight, store operators ICA and Coop said, while Swedish retailer Axfood said freezers at a distribution centre for home delivery of groceries in the Gothenburg area were hacked.
SuperValu, Ireland’s third-largest supermarket chain, ⁠⁠⁠⁠said a specific model of refrigeration systems has been affected by a “cyber incident” at 13 of its 223 ⁠⁠⁠⁠stores.
The Belga news agency reported overnight temperature increases at dozens of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ahold Delhaize stores in Belgium and Luxembourg. They were blamed on a cyberattack, according to the chief ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠executive ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠of refrigeration company,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Sabcobel.
Stephan Moelans said the units’ evaporators were switched to defrost mode.
Also in Belgium, five Spar shops had their fridge systems attacked, said a spokesperson for Colruyt Group, which operates the franchise system.
In Estonia, at least one supermarket chain was affected, technology supplier Kitman Coldtech told public broadcaster ERR.
“This is very fresh, it happened this morning,” Kitman’s CEO Jann Mutso said, without naming the affected chain.
Ahold Delhaize reported a cybersecurity incident to Dutch police last month.
The cyberattack on refrigeration systems at hundreds of supermarkets in France raised the temperature of fridges and freezers to as high as 50 degrees Celsius (122F), spoiling food and causing fires at several stores.
One Swedish store said in a social media post on Monday that the temperature of its refrigerators and freezers had been set to the same temperature as during the cyberattack in France.
“We are aware that a limited number of stores were affected by an incident overnight, which impacted their refrigeration and freezer systems,” a spokesperson for privately held ICA told Reuters in an email.
Kitman’s Mutso also said that temperatures at the Estonian chain were set to 50 degrees Celsius (122F).
Privately-held retailer Coop told Swedish daily Aftonbladet that six of its stores had been affected by similar incidents.
There has been no claim of responsibility for Monday’s attack, nor the one earlier in France.
However, the incidents help to increase concern regarding hybrid warfare stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Iran-United States war.
European states have blamed Moscow for a growing number of incidents affecting infrastructure, including via cyberattacks, in recent months. Russia has repeatedly denied involvement in any sabotage or hybrid warfare operations.
“These incidents show that cyberattacks ⁠can disrupt services, affect ⁠businesses and directly affect citizens’ ⁠daily lives”, a ⁠European Commission spokesperson ⁠said, stressing the importance of strengthening ‌cybersecurity across the bloc.
A spokesperson for The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium told Al Jazeera that the rising number of cyberattack incidents, especially those resulting from the targeted use of AI, is an evolving trend.
However, they added, “we may never be able to identify … who is behind this attack”.