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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 purchased 1 of the 1st “batches” of Chantix that was recalled in March of 2020. I have since then been diagnosed with a Pulmonary Nodule & actually go today, May 26, 2023, for my 2nd CT Scan to access additional information on it’s potential growth. I’m almost certain that I had taken the 1st initial recall lot of the medication & I spoke with my Pulmonologist about my concern & I feel that Pfizer should be held accountable even if I hopefully have not developed lung cancer, which hopefully this 2nd CT Scan will determine. The 1st CT Scan was not very helpful in the regards that I had some “white, patchy” areas in my lung that was deemed to be possible Pneumonia & so my Drs. & I anticipate that this 2nd Scan will reveal what we need to know. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my comment & I look forward to hearing from you in regards to having a potential case.
I’m 40 years old and had taken Chantix on 3 different prescriptions spanning from around 2012 till around 2017 they were fairly long stretches. I know the last time I took it was for at least 6 months.
Back in June of 2022 I was diagnosed with Testicular cancer and had a radical orchiectomy….when they biopsied the tumor it was shown as cancer and after that my tumor markers were still high and the scans showed the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes.
Sept. of 2022 I had to have 83 lymph nodes removed as a result of the testes cancer that had spread into Seminoma.
I took chantix for years
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The Doctor prescribed Chantix for my wife to help her with smoking in June of 2021. December 25, 2022 she passed away from Cancer lung cancer and brain cancer the cancer was so aggressive chemo and radiation was almost a lost. add me to the list for sure
I have taken Chantix several times over the past few years. Can you please add me to your contact list?
Please add me, I’ve been prescribed Chantix a couple of years ago. It was AWFUL.
Add Me to your contact list PLEASE to be contacted about Chantix.
I was prescribed Chantix 3 or 4 times. The side effects from this medication are horrible… I can still remember that taste of metallic-like in my mouth and the insomnia it caused made me have to stop it before it’s effects of Freedom from nicotine occurred. Loss of work…
I took chantix twice in the last 2 years, 6 months ago I was diagnosed with large B cell lymphoma and have underwent 6 treatments of chemo to date. Please contact me
Yes. I took it a few different times