N. C. Plant Found to Be Maker of Recalled Rolaids [View All]

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Source: The New York Times

Best Sweet, a maker of candy and chewy over-the-counter drug products in Mooresville, N.C., made the millions of Rolaids soft chews involved in a recall last week by a unit of Johnson & Johnson, according to Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California.

McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the Johnson & Johnson unit, recalled about 13 million packages of Rolaids on Dec. 9, saying that metal and wood particles may have contaminated the items during production at a third-party manufacturer. But McNeil declined last week to identify the Rolaids contractor.

Mr. Issa, the chairman-designate of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has been investigating McNeil for its conduct in previous recalls, disclosed Best Sweet as the Rolaids manufacturer in a letter sent Friday to the Food and Drug Administration.

Since Best Sweet’s “facility produces more than four billion products each year, I am concerned about F.D.A.’s knowledge of Best Sweet’s contractual relationship with Johnson & Johnson in manufacturing Rolaids and whether or not the F.D.A. is acting appropriately to determine if there are other similar public safety concerns about products manufactured by Best Sweet,” Mr. Issa wrote in the letter to Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the commissioner of the F.D.A.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/business/18drug.html