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BIONICHE LIFE SCIENCES ISSUES RECALL OF BETAC

June 27, 2005

Bioniche Life Sciences, a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the Canadian arm of its Pharma Division (Bioniche Pharma Canada Limited) is initiating a Class 1 recall of Betac, (NDC 62086-139-50/DIN 02245625), an injectable ascorbic acid product that is produced at the Bioniche Pharma Group Limited's sterile injectable manufacturing facility in Galway, Ireland. Approximately one-third of the product released to the market has been found to contain visible particulate matter (microbial in origin) which could potentially result in serious adverse health reactions.

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