Shoppers Drug Mart examines practices in wake of expired birth control Health Canada is asking pharmacists to look at each blister pack of Alesse 21 and Alesse 28 before dispensing it to make sure ...

Drug manufacturer Apotex is recalling one lot of its Mirvala 28 birth control pills because the blister pack may contain a green placebo pill in place of an active white pill.

TORONTO — Health Canada says a pharmaceutical company has recalled two lots of Seasonale birth control because the packages contain too many placebo pills.

Birth control medication is being pulled from Canadian shelves over extra placebo tablets, Health Canada says. The recall concerns Teva Canada’s Seasonale tablet with lot numbers 100059661 and ...