News tagged with 'Tylenol'

The news keeps getting worse for Johnson & Johnson and its McNeil Consumer Healthcare division. The company has announced an expanded recall for Benadryl allergy tablets and Extra Strength Tylenol gels. This is a follow-up to a January recall after consumers complained of musty or moldy odors.

PediaCare cold medications have been recalled because they were produced at the same problematic manufacturing plant as the recently recalled Children's Tylenol products. The FDA says criminal sanctions are being considered against McNeil/Johnson & Johnson.

The FDA needs mandatory recall authority to deal with problematic manufacturing plants such as the one that makes Children's Tylenol, lawmakers concluded at a hearing Thursday. A J & J executive told lawmakers that six key personnel have been let go and that the situation is "unacceptable" though no children have been hurt.

The head of Johnson & Johnson is expected to be present at a Thursday Congressional committee hearing to further explore manufacturing lapses at a company plant that led to a recall of 40 children's pain and allergy over-the-counter medications. Meanwhile, the FDA is trying to sort out adverse events coming into the agency from worried parents.

Johnson & Johnson is facing an expanded probe into its manufacturing practices after four recalls in seven months, the most recent at a Pennsylvania plant that makes Children's Tylenol products. The FDA tells parents to choose generics over Tylenol.

The FDA is taking its recall of children's Tylenol products one step further and advising parents to choose generic cold medications after an inspection report of the plant reveals lapsed quality controls.

McNeil Healthcare has issued a voluntary recall of 43 Tylenol children's products due to purity and potency problems. This is the third recall by the company for production problems in recent months.

The use of aspirin and Tylenol contributed to hearing loss as this published study found, though there was little information on the dosage.

McNeil Consumer Healthcare makes a host of over-the-counter pain relievers and has found a chemical used to transport packing materials may have transferred to the product, creating a musty-mildew odor. Consumers should return any product listed in the recall with an odor and not take it.

Tylenol Arthritis Caplets are recalled because of some bacterial contamination. Contact Johnson & Johnson for a full refund and the FDA warns consumers not to use the product.

Tylenol is removing 21 children's products from store shelves because of a bacterial contamination found in some of the inactive ingredients. None of the finished product reportedly has the bacteria, but check the lot numbers and return it for a new product.

Darvon and Darvocet, pain relievers that contain propoxyphene, will receive a stronger warning about the possibility of overdose. They just escaped being taken off the market by the FDA, which would have had a severe impact on about 500,000 daily users. 

An FDA advisory panel urged a ban of popular prescription painkillers Vicodin and Percocet, both which contain acetaminophen, Tuesday. The panel also recommended lowering the maximum dose of over-the-counter painkillers containing acetaminophen, such as Tylenol and Excedrin.

An expert panel convened to advise the FDA on acetaminophen, voted today that  Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol be given in smaller doses and the Extra Strength Tylenol should be sold by prescription only to reduce the dangers of serious liver injury.

A new report from the Food and Drug Administration calls for stronger warnings and better education about the use of acetaminophen, better known as Tylenol. It's easy to overdose on the recommended limit, and even a regular dose has been linked to liver damage and failure.