Brand-new Tylenol recall fifth this year for Johnson and Johnson

A Tylenol product is getting recalled again by Johnson and Johnson for drugs created by one of its manufacturing subsidiaries, McNeil Consumer Healthcare. The 5th Tylenol recall in the past year was declared with a congressional investigation in progress of McNeil Consumer Healthcare’s level of quality control procedures. Consumer grievances of a musty scent emanating from the bottles led Johnson and Johnson to remove the product from retail stores.

Recall of Tylenol 8-hour products

The Tylenol recall was talked about Monday. That had been the latest news on it. 128,000 bottles of 50-count Tylenol 8-Hour Caplets were taken back voluntarily by Johnson and Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare division. The Tylenol 8-hour goods had a “musty or moldy odor” that had been complained about within the U.S. and Puerto Rico which called for McNeil to initiate the recall, accounts the NY Times. The Tylenol recalled had been made at the company’s troubled Fort Washington, PA, plant before the facility was closed in March. The cause of the recall is the exact same excuse for why there had been a Tylenol recall in January, June and July with goods created in Puerto Rico at the McNeil facility. They said a chemical used to treat wooden transport pallets that leached into the Tylenol probably caused there to be a moldy smell.

Continuing recalls from Tylenol

A congressional inquiry has been going into Johnson and Johnson. This is because there are a number of recalls just this year. CNN accounts that last Nov, five lots of 100-count Tylenol Arthritis Pain were recalled for a stench causing nausea, stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea. All lots of the product were recalled later in December. In January, the Tylenol recall was expanded further to numerous lots of Tylenol, Motrin and other non-prescription drugs after consumer grievances of scent and nausea. Then in May, 50 children’s medicines were added to the recall. There were safety concerns and level of quality manage issues that caused this.

Work much better on the controls

The McNeil plant had been closed by Johnson and Johnson. This was done in April. Reuters reports the business has since been revamping the plant’s level of quality control plans to address violations uncovered in an investigation by inspectors from the United States of America Food and drug administration. The FDA found thick dust, grime and contaminated drug ingredients. Drugs manufactured at the Fort Washington plant contributed sales of about $650 million a year to Johnson and Johnson’s bottom line. Bloomberg accounts that the recalls and facility closings will reduce the company’s sales this year by about $600 billion.

Articles cited

New York Times

prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/more-trouble-with-tylenol/?partner=rss and emc=rss

CNN

cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/10/19/tylenol.recall/index.html?npt=NP1

Reuters

reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69I2W320101019