Monthly reportSAHPRA

South African Health Products Regulatory Authority — May 2026

What this register recorded from SAHPRA in May 2026, what other African authorities published in the same month that bears on it, and what we could not read in SAHPRA’s own notices. Every figure here is a count of published regulatory actions. None of it is a finding about South African Health Products Regulatory Authority.

What SAHPRA published

15 action(s) recorded: 15 recall.

Reference	Date	Country	Product	Batches	Action	Class	Source
DEA-ZA-2026-22659282	04 May 2026	ZA	OXOID™ Agglutinating Sera, Salmonella 9-0	none published	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-51468298	04 May 2026	ZA	Halaven (Eribulin)	148482	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-77397567	04 May 2026	ZA	Apixaban 2,5 DRL (Apixaban) Dr Reddy's Laboratories (Pty) Ltd	T2504569	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-27550567	06 May 2026	ZA	POLARx and POLARx FIT Cryoablation Catheters, POLARSHEATH Steerable Sheaths, and SMARTFREEZE Consoles	none published	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-53911652	08 May 2026	ZA	Aspelone (Prednisolone Sodium Phosphate) Pharmacare Limited trading as Aspen Pharmacare	E0023605	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-37831102	14 May 2026	ZA	Pepta AC Gel (Magnesium Carbonate light, Magnesium Trisilicate, Sodium bicarbonate) Asante Pharma	B250515 · B260383 · B260382 · B250514	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-81097468	14 May 2026	ZA	Mixing Bowl and Spatula, 20-pack	none published	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-95041490	14 May 2026	ZA	TCNTM (Thermo Couple Nitinol) and CSKTM (Cosman Straight Kit) Reusable Radiofrequency (RF) Electrodes	none published	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-57462202	18 May 2026	ZA	Mx-ava 500 Mpat Syringe Set Multi Patient	none published	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-69116262	19 May 2026	ZA	Residual Barrier Technology (RBT) Protectus Med 1lt	none published	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-80622375	19 May 2026	ZA	Bobby Balloon Guide Catheter	none published	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-87003131	20 May 2026	ZA	Ranceph Suspension 125 Mg/5 ML (Cephalexin Monohydrate) Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals (Pty) Ltd	DFG4606A	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-28997660	21 May 2026	ZA	Optase Dry Eye Intense Drop (Glycerol 0.2%)	none published	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-22761407	22 May 2026	ZA	iDEXIS Semaglutide, iDEXIS Tirzepatide, iDEXISSemaglutide/Tirzepatide	none published	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published
DEA-ZA-2026-95579305	27 May 2026	ZA	CRE™ Wireguided Balloon Dilatation Catheter	none published	Recall	Unclassified	Tier 1 · Regulator-published

What other authorities published

Nothing published elsewhere this month joins to SAHPRA by either of the two links this register will draw — a shared event, or a manufacturer SAHPRA has itself named. That is a statement about those two links and not about the month.

What we could not read in SAHPRA’s notices

Our failures on SAHPRA’s coverage, across the whole register rather than this month. Published because a report that told an authority only what it was missing would be an audit sent by someone with no standing to conduct one.

121 record(s) held from SAHPRA in total
3 carry no publication date we could read
30 name neither a batch nor a stated reason
48 name no manufacturer
30 are searchable and API-available but carry noindex, because they are too incomplete for a public URL
23 have no archived copy of the original notice

Each of these is something SAHPRA published and this register did not capture, or captured incompletely. None of them is a failure by SAHPRA.

Correcting this

Anything on this page that is wrong about South African Health Products Regulatory Authority can be corrected by South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, and a record published by one of its officers carries verification tier 0 — the rank only the issuing regulator can create. Nothing else on this register does.

Write to notices@drugeyeafrica.org. Corrections to existing records are logged and published on the corrections page; a superseded record keeps its URL and points forward to the one that replaced it.

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