Children’s Tylenol and Other Drugs Recalled

[babylonsister]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/business/02drug.html?src=busln

Children’s Tylenol and Other Drugs Recalled
By NATASHA SINGER
Published: May 1, 2010


The McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit of Johnson & Johnson has voluntarily begun a recall of certain children’s over-the-counter liquid medicines because of manufacturing deficiencies, the Food and Drug Administration said Saturday.

The deficiencies may affect the potency, purity or quality of the products, the agency said in a statement.

Consumers should stop using certain lots of infants’ and children’s Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl products because some of them may contain too much of the active ingredient, McNeil said in a statement late Friday. Other products may contain tiny particles or inactive ingredients that may not meet testing requirements, the company said.

The recalled products include lots of Tylenol Infants’ Drops, Children’s Tylenol Suspensions, Infants’ Motrin Drops, Children’s Zyrtec liquid in bottles and Children’s Benadryl Allergy liquids in bottles.

McNeil advised consumers who bought the products to stop using them.

Although the potential for serious medical problems is remote, McNeil said, parents and caregivers should not give the products to children.

For more information about the recall from McNeil, consumers may go to the company’s Web site, mcneilproductrecall.com. Consumers may also reach McNeil at [phone] from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday and on the weekends from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time.

[spanone]

1. manufacturing deficiencies....oh well, it's only our children

can china do worse?

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Children's Tylenol almost killed a little girl in my school

She had something wrong with her liver but didn't know it. She caught a cold, and her mom gave her some Children's Tylenol. She ended up in intensive care for 2 or 3 months and nearly died.