I have recently picked up my latest repeat prescription for Humalog Vials for use in my pump. This time arround the packaging has changed and it now with all its stuck on labels gives the fealing of quality similar to a bootleg DVD sold at some car boot sale.
I was wondering if anyone else had seen a similar change. I am still trying to figure out if it is legit and figure out how confident I can be that the insulin is the same as I am used too.
The vial itself still has the normal seal but the the label has a slightly different format and the text that is vissible on the exposed parts seems to be in french. The rest of the label is covered by a stick on label with what would be normally expected on a standard vial of Humalog.
The information leaflet is not printed on the thin lightweight paper but appears to have been manually printed on normal a3 paper (quite bulky compared to the normal thin paper).
The box is substantially bigger than the normal box (about 10mm taller) but still struggles to take the folded up A3 page rather than the normal thin info sheet and the insulin.
The box is covered by text in French but contains no contact addresses for Eli Lilly. It does have a telephone for some one in France.
Is this just Boots trying to save some costs with imported insulin. The packaging and labeling seems to indicate that is was not Elli Lilly that has done the re-labeling and there is no formal indication of it passing some form of QA.
Im just unsure about using this and hoped someone else has come accross this and can tell me that Im just being foolish.
thanks
Rob
I was wondering if anyone else had seen a similar change. I am still trying to figure out if it is legit and figure out how confident I can be that the insulin is the same as I am used too.
The vial itself still has the normal seal but the the label has a slightly different format and the text that is vissible on the exposed parts seems to be in french. The rest of the label is covered by a stick on label with what would be normally expected on a standard vial of Humalog.
The information leaflet is not printed on the thin lightweight paper but appears to have been manually printed on normal a3 paper (quite bulky compared to the normal thin paper).
The box is substantially bigger than the normal box (about 10mm taller) but still struggles to take the folded up A3 page rather than the normal thin info sheet and the insulin.
The box is covered by text in French but contains no contact addresses for Eli Lilly. It does have a telephone for some one in France.
Is this just Boots trying to save some costs with imported insulin. The packaging and labeling seems to indicate that is was not Elli Lilly that has done the re-labeling and there is no formal indication of it passing some form of QA.
Im just unsure about using this and hoped someone else has come accross this and can tell me that Im just being foolish.
thanks
Rob
But sorry has never happened to me. Good luck.
