{"id":581853,"date":"2010-05-27T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10007131"},"modified":"2010-05-27T14:20:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:20:02","slug":"criminal-charges-are-possible-for-tylenol-recall-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581853","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Charges Are Possible For Tylenol Recall Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/5-27-2010%202-14-52%20PM-thumb-250x185-40761.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>CNN is reporting that the FDA has referred the Tylenol recall case to their criminal division for investigation. At issue is a pattern of non-compliance with FDA warnings and failures by management of McNeil to investigate and provide a timely resolution to serious problems with the product. These problems include excess amounts of the active ingredient in Tylenol, acetaminophen. <\/p>\n<p>At a House hearing today the Food and Drug Administration discussed &#8220;significant violations&#8221; of manufacturing regulations by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, says CNN.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, asked a FDA official whether there was criminal liability as a result of the recalls. <\/p>\n<p>From CNN:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Well, it has been referred to the FDA&#8217;s crime division,&#8221; said Deborah Autor, a director at the FDA&#8217;s compliance office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to take that as a yes, that there are potential criminal charges and indictments,&#8221; Issa responded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The FDA is currently investigating 775 reports of  serious side effects from recalled McNeil products.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/05\/27\/news\/companies\/tylenol_hearing\/\" >Tylenol recalls referred to FDA crime division<\/a> [CNNMoney]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN is reporting that the FDA has referred the Tylenol recall case to their criminal division for investigation. At issue is a pattern of non-compliance with FDA warnings and failures by management of McNeil to investigate and provide a timely resolution to serious problems with the product. These problems include excess amounts of the active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581853","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\/4513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}