Birth control recall: Packaging error could cause unintended pregnancy

BALTIMORE, M.D. – A pharmaceutical company is recalling birth control pills that were distributed to wholesalers, clinics and retail pharmacies across the country. The birth control tablets are sold under the name Mibelas 24 Fe. According to the Food and Drug Administration, the first four days of the blister packet have four nonhormonal placebo tablets as opposed to the active tablets. “Oral contraceptive tablets that are taken out of sequence may place the user at risk fo