Woman Sues After Becoming Pregnant From Mislabeled Birth Control Pills

By Lee Moran, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Woman Sues After Becoming Pregnant From Mislabeled Birth Control Pills

February 20, 2013 Updated Feb 20, 2013 at 11:29 AM PDT

A single mom is suing a pharmaceutical firm for the cost of raising her daughter after a packaging error allowed her to become pregnant.

Shanta Russell, 33, is demanding compensation from Qualitest Pharmaceuticals after the firm admitted her birth control pills had been put in the wrong order in the blister pack.

Placebo pills, to be taken when a woman has her period, were placed in the packs where active pills should have been. This rendered Russell's contraceptives, which she had been taking for more than 12 years, ineffective.

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