Blood pressure tablets used by millions urgently recalled

According to regulators, certain boxes of a widely prescribed blood pressure treatment may contain tablets that were never meant to be there. At first glance everything looks normal — the packaging, the blister strips, even the dosage instructions. But inside some packs, the tablets themselves may not match what the label claims.

Officials say the issue likely happened during the packaging process at a manufacturing facility where several different medicines are produced at the same time. Because of this, tablets from another blood-pressure drug may have accidentally ended up in the wrong boxes. Although both medicines are designed to treat the same condition, they work in completely different ways in the body.