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Tylenol recall widens to include 500 lots of OTC products
2010-01-20 04:41:07 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Health News News)
Phoenix, Arizona (CaymanMama.com) — The Tylenol recall issued last September was expanded on Friday, and the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary which issued the recall is taking some more heat from federal health officials.
In a warning letter from the Food & Drug Administration to McNeil Consumer Healthcare, it was made quite clear that the company had failed to act quickly in removing the recalled products from store shelves after consumers were sickened by a strange moldy smell from some of the medications.
“This morning, McNeil Consumer Healthcare voluntarily expanded its recall of over-the-counter drugs to include approximately 500 lots of products,” Deborah M. Autor, director of the Office of Compliance in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA, said Friday.
The company’s original recall was limited to certain lots of Tylenol, but the expanded recall now includes certain lots of Motrin, Benadryl, Rolaids and St. Joseph aspirin.
At present, there have been approximately 70 consumer reports about the problem, some saying that their use of the products resulted in nausea, stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea, Autor said.
McNeil Consumer Healthcare believes the contamination was attributed a chemical used to treat the wooden pallets on which packaging material is transported and stored. Health officials commended the company for issuing the original recall in a timely manner, but then chastised them for dragging their feet when removing the product from retail shelves.
“The health effects of this chemical have not been well-studied, but no serious events have been documented in the medical literature,” Autor said.
The updated list of specific lots products which have been recalled are:
* Regular Strength Tylenol
* Extra Strength Tylenol
* Children’s Tylenol
* Tylenol 8-Hour
* Tylenol Arthritis
* Tylenol PM
* Tylenol Simply Sleep
* Children’s Motrin
* Motrin IB
* Benadryl
* Rolaids
* St. Joseph aspirin
For more information on the recall, visit the McNeil Consumer Healthcare website.
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