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The FDA pulled Zantac and its generic versions off the market after a cancer-causing substance called NDMA was found in samples of the drug.

READ MORE: Pfizer has agreed to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits alleging it it of hiding the cancer risks of its heartburn drug Zantac.

Pfizer was the primary manufacturer of Zantac from 1998 to 2006, when several suits claim it should have known that the drug was contaminated with NDMA. NDMA is a chemical byproduct of many industrial manufacturing processes, including the production of rocket fuel. Since the drug was pulled and reformulated, thousands of lawsuits began piling up in federal and state courts against Pfizer, GSK, Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim, who have all owned the rights to the medication.

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