The sugar water mouth wash solution was made in 2012 at Pharmaceutical Development Section of the NIH Clinical Center. That unit was shut down in 2016 after the Food and Drug Administration found problems with its sterility processes.
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Particles were found in the solution in December. Cultures taken from three contaminated bottles showed the particles were environmental mold.
No one was harmed by the solution.
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