An advocacy group has urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban birth control pills made by Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Akzo Nobel NV unit Organon BioSciences. They have postulated that the pills carry the risk of dangerous blood clots, thrombosis, which was also the characteristic of older contraceptives. Older oral contraceptives contain estrogen and progestin hormones. But newer ones so-called ‘third generation’ contain a different type of progestin called desogestrel. The group asserted that by barring third generation contraceptive, The FDA will potentially save hundreds of young women a year from developing venous thrombosis and its disabling and sometimes fatal consequences. However, representatives from the maker of pills were quite reluctant to give comment.
