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Drug FDA Class I Ongoing Contamination / non-sterility

ZICAM COLD REMEDY MEDICATED NASAL SWABS, 20 Single-Use Swabs per carton, Distributed by Church & Dwight Co,. Inc., Ewing NJ. UPC 7 32216 30120 5

Church & Dwight Inc Published Jul 9, 2025

Risk level

Class I

Dangerous or defective — could cause serious health problems or death.

Severity score 85/100

What should you do?

  • Check whether you have this product, using the lot codes, UPCs, and dates listed below.
  • Do not eat, serve, or sell the affected product.
  • Return it to the place of purchase for a refund, or throw it away in a sealed bag so people and animals can’t get to it.
  • Contact Church & Dwight Inc or your place of purchase with questions, and see the source record below for full details.
Reason for recall

Microbial Contamination of Non-Sterile Products: Fungal contamination of nasal swabs.

Hazards

Fungal contamination · primary

Affected products (1)

ZICAM COLD REMEDY MEDICATED NASAL SWABS, 20 Single-Use Swabs per carton, Distributed by Church & Dwight Co,. Inc., Ewing NJ. UPC 7 32216 30120 5

3,374,918 cartons

Code info: All lots.

Affected areas

Nationwide

Timeline

  1. Initiated
    Jun 6, 2025
  2. Published
    Jul 9, 2025
Recall number
D-0504-2025
Agency
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Country
US
Source data (openFDA JSON) About FDA enforcement reports

FDA records come from the openFDA drug enforcement-report dataset — the agency's full weekly enforcement list. Most entries are not issued as consumer press releases, so they won't appear on fda.gov/recalls or in a web search. The source record link above resolves this exact recall by its number.