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Edetate Disodium (marketed as Endrate and generic products).
FDA Public Health Advisory [US Food and Drug Administration Web site]. January 16, 2008.

This notification alerts health care professionals and patients to the potentially fatal danger of mistaking two medicines with similar names, both commonly referred to as only "EDTA."
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