There are more manufacturing woes for corporate giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) as the company announced on Tuesday, June 28, it will launch another recall of Extra Strength Tylenol Caplets. The 60,000 bottles recalled were produced in 2009 and once again have a musty odor that has plagued other medicines made by J&J.
The bad smell has been linked to the chemical, 2,4,6-tribromoanisole, a preservative used on wooden pallets that ship drugs which can cause unpleasant gastrointestinal symptoms but is not serious. The antipsychotic drug Risperdal was contaminated with the same odor as was the HIV/AIDS drug Prezista, anti-epilepsy drug Topamax, and different types of Tylenol, reports the Wall Street Journal.
This time Tylenol 225 count caplets with a lot number ABA619 and a UPC Code of 300450444271 should not be consumed. Consumers should contact J & J subsidiary, McNeil Consumer Healthcare at 1-888-222-6036 for a refund or coupon for another product.
There have been about two dozen recalls of J&J products since September 2009 including prescription and nonprescription medicines with a bad smell, contact lenses that irritated eyes, replacement hips that didn’t work, and defective Tylenol and Motrin. J&J lost about $900 million in sales last year due to the recalls.
The company’s Fort Washington, Pennsylvania plant, which was closed by the Food and Drug Administration in April 2010 because of unsanitary conditions, has still not been re-opened.
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Sources: http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/06/28/jj-recall-watch-extra-strength-tylenol-pulled-due-to-smell/?mod=google_news_blog and http://finance.yahoo.com/news/JJ-recalls-more-Tylenol-Extra-apf-4194662331.html?x=0
