Recall On Birth Control Pills Causing ’Unintended Pregnancy’ Risk

Imagine finding out that one of the sample packs of birth control pills that your doctor gave you could actually result in pregnancy.
Pharmaceutical company Allergan announced a nationwide voluntary recall of Taytulla soft gel oral contraceptive capsules—1mg/20mcg sample packs—on May 29 after learning that four "non-hormonal" placebo capsules (aka, sugar pills) had inadvertently been placed out of order.

"As a result of this packaging error, oral contraceptive capsules that are taken out of sequence may place the user at risk for contraceptive failure and unintended pregnancy," the company’s statement reads. “The reversing of the order may not be apparent to either new users or previous users of the product, increasing the likelihood of taking the capsules out of order.”