{"id":940,"date":"2012-02-19T00:24:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T06:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2012-02-19T00:24:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T06:24:11","slug":"johnson-johnson-consumer-unit-recalls-574000-bottles-of-infant-tylenol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/johnson-johnson-consumer-unit-recalls-574000-bottles-of-infant-tylenol.html","title":{"rendered":"Johnson & Johnson Consumer Unit Recalls 574,000 Bottles Of Infant Tylenol"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Pity the public relations executives at Johnson & Johnson. They’re working overtime again.<\/p>\r\n

The New Brunwick, N.J.-based\u00a0pharmaceutical giant has another recall on its hands.\u00a0The company’s McNeil Consumer\u00a0Healthcare unit, which\u00a0according to the Associated Press has had about two dozen recalls since\u00a0September 2009, now has another one on its hands.<\/p>\r\n

On Friday the company announced that it was recalling\u00a0574,000 bottles of\u00a0grape-flavored Infants’ Tylenol from retailers across the nation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/health\/139511008.html?cmpid=15585797<\/a><\/p>\r\n

There’s much irony in this, irony a PR person won’t find amusing. These recalled bottles, which had been redesigned to supposedly make it easier to measure Tylenol doses,\u00a0were unveiled three months ago.\u00a0Johnson & Johnson boasted that this was a big safety improvement.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

But there soon was a hitch:\u00a0Consumers started\u00a0complaining that the plastic syringe, used to give babies their Tylenol, was pushing a so-called “flow restrictor,” into the bottle.\u00a0Hence the recall.<\/p>\r\n

And here’s my favorite understatement of 2012 so far:<\/p>\r\n

“Today’s news about the Infants’ Tylenol recall is clearly disappointing after all the progress that McNeil has been making to ensure it products meet the highest level of quality and consumer satisfaction,”\u00a0CEO William Weldon said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\r\n

Disappointing, indeed.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pity the public relations executives at Johnson & Johnson. They’re working overtime again. The New Brunwick, N.J.-based\u00a0pharmaceutical giant has another recall on its hands.\u00a0The company’s McNeil Consumer\u00a0Healthcare unit, which\u00a0according to the Associated Press has had about two dozen recalls since\u00a0September 2009, now has another one on its hands. On Friday the company announced that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[545],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-infant-tylenol-recall"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t