Johnson and Johnson’s Second Recall of the Year

Friday marked the second recall in children’s medicine in less than a year. After a routine inspection of the Johnson and Johnson office in Fort Washington, PA the FDA issued a recall on over forty common children’s prescriptions. Some of these medications are Tylenol, Zyrtec, Benadryl, and Motrin which have been recalled because there is no clear indication of exactly which bottles were affected in the fifteen hundred lots produced.

During the inspection, the FDA stated that the drugs being produced are not meeting standard because they may contain higher than normal amounts of active ingredients as well as inactive ingredients. It has been ordered that they should not be administered to children.

FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg has ordered a halt in production at the McNeil facility until the investigation is complete to determine what is leading to the production problems.

In less than six months, McNeil products have been recalled twice. In January, McNeil had a recall on all of their products manufactured at their location in Puerto Rico.

It is crucial that this information reaches everyone in order to correct the problem and eliminate the distribution of these children medications. These products that have been recalled have been distributed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Fiji, Dubai (UAE), Guam, Tobago, Dominican Republic Jamaica, Guatemala, Canada, Panama, Trinidad, and Kuwait.

To find out if you currently have any of these items or for more information and a list of all the products that have been recalled on April 30, 2010, please visit the McNeil website at http://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/page.jhtml?id=/include/new_recall.inc.