If you are thinking about taking atorvastatin, you may have heard that in 2018 there was a major recall of more than 200,000 bottles. Understandably, you may want to know what happened. In late May 2018, a firm responsible for producing atorvastatin voluntarily recalled bottles when it was reported that a foreign object had been found embedded in a tablet. It is worth noting, however, that the classification of the recall suggests that the use of the affected tablets would have likely been harmless.