{"id":8052,"date":"2020-02-06T12:48:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/uncategorized\/zantac-injury-attorneys\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T12:48:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:48:03","slug":"zantac-injury-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/article\/zantac-injury-attorneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Zantac Injury Attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over-the-counter Zantac (Ranitidine) is already one of the largest-selling antacids in the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n

Annual revenue exceeds $125 million. That market share was expected to triple by 2026. <\/span><\/p>\n

Then, the Food and Drug Administration found a dangerously-high level of a cancer-causing compound in Zantac. <\/span><\/p>\n

The watchdog then ordered Sanofi<\/a> to stop selling the drug in New York. Now, it faces an uncertain financial future.<\/span><\/p>\n

NDMA exposure victims face uncertain futures as well. If that future includes cancer or another serious chronic condition, these victims can count on <\/span>Napoli Shkolnik<\/span><\/a> to fight for them. <\/span><\/p>\n

Our tenacious attorneys hold companies like Sanofi responsible when they recklessly endanger the lives of consumers. <\/span><\/p>\n

That responsibility includes compensation for economic losses, such as medical bills, and noneconomic losses, such as pain and suffering. <\/span><\/p>\n

Additional punitive damages might be available as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zantac Uses<\/b><\/h2>\n

Regulators approved this drug in 1983 as a treatment for ulcers. By 1988, Zantac was one of the best-selling drugs in history. <\/span><\/p>\n

It was one of the first pharmaceutical products to eclipse $1 billion in sales.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The drug patent expired in 1997, so cheaper generics became available. <\/span><\/p>\n

So, the company needed a new strategy. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2004, an over-the-counter Zantac appeared on store shelves nationwide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, people use Zantac to address a wide range of digestive problems, such as ulcers and heartburn. <\/span><\/p>\n

So, these people are already vulnerable to NDMA poisoning. As outlined below, this chemical has been linked to cancer in the digestive tract.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ranitidine and N-Nitrosodimethylamine<\/b><\/h2>\n

NDMA, which is also known as dimethylnitrosamine (DMN), is a highly-toxic chemical commonly found in a number of everyday products. <\/span><\/p>\n

NDMA is often a by-product of certain manufacturing techniques. It\u2019s also found naturally in the environment and in the human body, if certain alkylamines react with each other in certain ways.<\/span><\/p>\n

N-Nitrosodimethylamine is usually not harmful if the concentration is under ten nanograms per liter, or .33 parts per million. <\/span><\/p>\n

Minute levels of NDMA are usually in drinking water, because of chlorination. Small NDMA levels are also present in many cured meats and in tobacco smoke, largely as a manufacturing by-product.<\/span><\/p>\n

In July 2018, American and European regulators found unacceptably-high NDMA levels in valsartan, a blood pressure drug made in China that\u2019s chemically similar to ranitidine. <\/span><\/p>\n

Subsequent Zantac tests confirmed regulators\u2019 worst fears, and a recall announcement followed.<\/span><\/p>\n

In laboratory tests, NDMA caused cancerous tumors in the following areas:<\/span><\/p>\n