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Chantix class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Teresa Baptiste filed a class action lawsuit against Pfizer, Inc.
- Why: Baptiste claims Pfizer sold adulterated, misbranded and unapproved varenicline-containing drugs under the brand name Chantix.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
Pfizer designed, manufactured, packaged and eventually sold adulterated, misbranded and unapproved varenicline-containing drugs under the brand name Chantix, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Teresa Baptiste claims Pfizer sold varenicline-containing drugs marketed as Chantix that have been adulterated through a contamination of n-nitroso varenicline, a known human carcinogen.
Baptiste argues Pfizer “willfully ignored” warnings about its operating standards while “knowingly and fraudulently” manufacturing, selling, labeling and distributing the allegedly adulterated varenicline-containing drugs.
“Defendant represented and warranted to consumers that its VCDs were therapeutically equivalent to and otherwise the same as the FDA-approved brand name drug Chantix,” the Chantix class action states.
Chantix class action alleges Pfizer failed to adhere to current Good Manufacturing Practices
Pfizer failed to adhere to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and other practices and regulations in the company’s manufacturing and distribution of Chantix, Baptiste claims.
“When a drug is manufactured in a non-cGMP compliant manner, that means the manufacturer cannot assure that the drugs meet the appropriate quality, purity, identity or strength,” the Chantix class action states.
Baptiste argues that, when a company fails to manufacture its drugs in a manner that is not consistent with cGMP, it results in their products being “adulterated or misbranded or both.”
“Defendant’s (varenicline-containing drugs) were not fit for their ordinary use and Defendant has been unjustly enriched through the sale of these knowingly adulterated and/or misbranded drugs,” the Chantix class action states.
Baptiste claims Pfizer is guilty of negligence and unjust enrichment, among other things, and in violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and multiple state consumer protection laws.
He demands a jury trial and requests declaratory and injunctive relief along with an award of exemplary or punitive damages for herself and all class members.
Baptiste wants to represent a nationwide class and Pennsylvania subclass of consumers who purchased varenicline-containing drugs that were manufactured, distributed or sold by Pfizer.
In February, a class action lawsuit accusing Pfizer of failing to disclose to consumers that its drug Chantix contained a high level of a carcinogen was dismissed by a federal judge in New York.
Last September, Pfizer recalled all lots of its Chantix drug that had been distributed across the United States and Puerto Rico from between June 2019 and June 2021 over concerns it contained an unsafe level of the carcinogen nitrosamine.
Have you purchased Pfizer’s varenicline-containing drugs sold under the brand name Chantix? Let us know in the comments!
The plaintiff is represented by Aaron J. Freiwald of Freiwald Law, P.C., and Marlene Goldenberg and Samantha Hoefs of GoldenbergLaw, PLLC.
The Chantix class action lawsuit is Baptiste v. Pfizer, Inc., Case No. 2:22-cv-03647, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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I have been taking Chantix and the other name vercinline to stop smoking, the night mares were traumatic and I got the point I cried ALOT and even thing I didnt care if I lived or not. Liver is not good either. Have quit taking this as off October 2022
I have taken chantix and when they took it off the market I called my pharmacist. He told me that the lot # of my prescription was one that on the list Please add me
Please include me, my dr currently has me taking this medication to stop smoking.
Please include me, my dr currently has me taking this medication.
Add me
I HAVE BEEN PRESCRIBED CHANTIX MANY TIMES. PLEASE INCLUDE ME ON THIS
I was prescribed Chantix for several years (2017-2021) on & off, trying to quit smoking.
I received a letter from walgreens in September 2021, warning me of the carcinogen hazard while taking that medication. Obviously, I discontinued use of it then!
Wife had been using Chantix. Now
Just discovered stage 4 liver disease.
Following this now.
I have gone through several rounds of Chantix® in an attempt to quit smoking over the past few years, including at least one round, possibly two, during the period of June 2019 to June 2021.
I use to take Chantix to quit smoking