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Fortune
Sasha Rogelberg

Mold colonies and liquid-flooded air purifiers: CVS sourced medication from tainted factories—and it has twice the amount of recalls on store-brand drugs than competitors

A factory worker packs supplements inside a box. (Credit: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg—Getty Images)

Pharmacy chain CVS has over 2,000 store-brand health and wellness items, and it appears to have cut corners to cheaply source some of those products at the expense of its customers, according to a new report from Bloomberg.

CVS has twice the recalls on generic, over-the-counter drugs as competitor Walgreens, found the Bloomberg investigation, which analyzed data from the Food and Drug Administration. In the past decade, CVS had 133 recalls of generic-brand over-the-counter drugs compared to 70 from Walgreens and 51 from Walmart. 

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