Johnson & Johnson criticized in Tylenol recall

[DeSwiss]

Source: Chicago Tribune

Johnson & Johnson criticized in Tylenol recall
FDA accuses drugmaker of dragging its feet in recall of tainted Tylenol, Motrin and other over-the-counter medications

Chicago Tribune
By Andrew Zajac Tribune Newspapers
January 16, 2010

WASHINGTON - Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare Products division expanded its recall of various batches of Tylenol, Motrin and other over-the-counter products tainted by a chemical in wooden shipping pallets, and it came under fire Friday from the Food and Drug Administration, which said the company dragged its feet in investigating the contamination and pulling goods from store shelves.

Consumers have complained of moldy-smelling bottles, and some have been temporarily sickened with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or other stomach distress, said Deborah Autor, head of compliance in FDA's drug office. "McNeil should have acted faster," Autor said. "When something smells bad, literally and figuratively, companies must take all necessary actions" to fix the problem.

Autor said McNeil realized it had a problem with products in September 2008 but didn't notify the FDA until the following September and didn't begin recalling products until November. The FDA cannot order product recalls on its own. The FDA on Friday sent McNeil a warning letter seeking improvements in the company's manufacturing operations.

McNeil has linked the illness to 2,4,6-tribromoanisole, a chemical used to treat pallets that contained packaging material used in the tainted products. Investigators surmise that the chemical leached into the packaging material.


Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-tc-biz-johnson-0115-0116-jan16,0,6213281.story

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[Faux pas]

1. FDA doesn't have recall power?!? I guess they're only good for

approving drugs that'll kill ya, not getting them off the shelves...Up is down, day is night, black is white, war is peace, bad is good, etc, etc, etc.

[Grinchie]

2. More likely this is a cover story for pills containing many time the dosage

What better way to preserve market share but to make up a story that some idiot has tampered with Tylenol, that to admit that the main ingredient destroys the liver with a moderate overdosage.

Nothing like using that scam to pull the offending, liver destroying pills off the markey, at the same time, preserving the brand, and allowing for the collection of Insurance, and the writeoff on taxes.

20 years later, the FDA suddenly reduces the maximum dosage of Tylenol, quietly and unobtrusively, in hopes that nobody will remember the Tylenol Scare.

I remember, and now that we see the greed of the pharmaceutical companies, I don't doubt the something like this occurred.

[EFerrari]

3. Look at this story about J&J that Thom reported today. It's even WORSE.

Johnson & Johnson faces federal suit

The Associated Press

Published: January 16, 2010

TRENTON, N.J. - Federal prosecutors said Friday that health care giant Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks so nursing homes would put more patients on its blockbuster schizophrenia medicine and other drugs.

In a complaint filed Friday, prosecutors said the company paid rebates and other forms of kickbacks to Omnicare Inc., the country's biggest dispenser of prescription drugs in nursing homes. Prosecutors allege Omnicare pharmacists then recommended that nursing home patients with signs of Alzheimer's disease be put on the powerful schizophrenia drug Risperdal, which was later found to increase risk of death in the elderly.

The allegations are in a complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney in Boston in a whistle-blower case originally brought by a former Omnicare pharmacist in Chicago, Bernard Lisitza, who alleges he was fired after he challenged the Risperdal kickbacks and other improper practices at the company.

"Kickbacks in the nursing home pharmacy context are particularly nefarious because they can result in excessive prescribing of strong drugs to patients who have little or no control over the medical care they are receiving," U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said in a statement.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jan/16/bz-johnson-johnson-faces-federal-suit/

[corpseratemedia]

4. perhaps some republican trickle-bathtub types got sick taking these

and then got angry at getting sick, and wanted to do something about it

but then DIDN'T realize that the total lack of action by the fda is a direct result of their "less govt. regulation" mantra

.."didn't realize" because they're idiologically blind....

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. Don't forget prayer is the answer for everything!

:sarcasm:

[DeSwiss]

6. Take two prayers and call me in the morning? n/t

[wordpix]

7. I call bullshit - how the hell does a pallet-treatment chemical get in drug packaging material?

BULLSHIT. The toxic chemical leaches into the packaging material through the plastic pill bottles?

This story doesn't add up and the reporter should have asked more questions.

My take: Either someone tampered with these drugs or the packaging, or the toxic leaching is coming from the plastic bottles.

[OhioChick]

8. Raised my eyebrows, as well. n/t

[DeSwiss]

9. Excellent point.

- I call bullshit as well.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. K&R! Heard this on the TV news and that was my first thought...

:crazy:

Wish that I could also recommend the sig pic... :rofl: