{"id":570789,"date":"2010-05-19T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T18:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10006828"},"modified":"2010-05-19T12:10:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:10:30","slug":"fda-announces-widespread-investigation-of-mcneil-after-tylenol-recalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570789","title":{"rendered":"FDA Announces Widespread Investigation Of McNeil After Tylenol Recalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/051910-002-recalled-tylenol-thumb-300x188-40492.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/05\/childrens-tylenol-motrin-other-medications-recalled.html\">recalled liquid Tylenol<\/a> and other children&#8217;s medicines last month? Or the <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/fda-is-mad-funky-smelly-barfy-tylenol-has-been-a-problem-since-2008.html\">stinky drugs<\/a> that were recalled back in January? Or the children&#8217;s Tylenol that was recalled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylenol.com\/page.jhtml?id=tylenol\/news\/subpchildinfantnews.inc\" >last September<\/a>? The FDA remembers, which is probably why it&#8217;s &#8220;conducting a <a href=\"http:\/\/drugstorenews.com\/story.aspx?id=140115&#038;menuid=793\" >company-wide investigation<\/a> of McNeil Consumer Healthcare&#8217;s drug manufacturing practices to determine whether similar problems exist throughout the company.&#8221; Also, a date has now been set (May 27) for the <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/05\/congress-opens-investigation-into-childrens-tylenol-recall.html\">House Committee hearing<\/a> where the CEO and chairman of parent company Johnson &#038; Johnson are expected to testify.<\/p>\n<p>This is one case where the company has been asking for trouble (meaning government intervention) for a while now&#8211;all three recalls in the past nine months have been related to quality control issues at production facilities. ABC News said the FDA met with representatives of McNeil and Johnson &#038; Johnson <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/OnCall\/childrens-tylenol-recall-fda-report-rips-quality-control\/story?id=10558014\" >back in February<\/a> to &#8220;express its concerns about their production practices.&#8221; The company reps promised they were taking care of the problem, but two months later McNeil announced its recall of children&#8217;s drugs that were potentially contaminated, and a subsequent plant inspection revealed a <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/05\/mcneil-plant-that-made-recalled-liquid-tylenol-is-a-dirty-stinkpot.html\" >dirty facility<\/a> with poor quality-control. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drugstorenews.com\/story.aspx?id=140115&#038;menuid=793\" >&#8220;FDA &#8216;actively pursuing&#8217; McNeil Consumer Healthcare&#8221;<\/a> [Drugs Store News]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/downloads\/NewsEvents\/PublicHealthFocus\/UCM212243.pdf\">FDA Media Update re. McNeil Invesgiation (PDF)<\/a> [FDA]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the recalled liquid Tylenol and other children&#8217;s medicines last month? Or the stinky drugs that were recalled back in January? Or the children&#8217;s Tylenol that was recalled last September? The FDA remembers, which is probably why it&#8217;s &#8220;conducting a company-wide investigation of McNeil Consumer Healthcare&#8217;s drug manufacturing practices to determine whether similar problems exist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}