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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Another Recall for McNeil OTC Products

Several groups of drugs by the unit of Johnson & Johnson, McNeil were reminded that sells many products, Tylenol, Sudafed, Benadryl, Rolaids, Sinutab and the economy.

For most products, the recall was from a review of records of the manufacturing company in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, which showed requested that some equipment is not cleaned properly, or the documents themselves were defective.

McNeil noted that all drugs, recalled no adverse events were reported and that consumers bought them they can continue to use.

Included in the recall of 37 different types of McNeil Tylenol brand products contain acetaminophen, six varieties of medicines with diphenhydramine Benadryl, 10 types of Sudafed (pseudoephedrine), and 24 packages Sinutab (paracetamol and phenylephrine) tablets.

certain types of products and lot numbers are put on a website McNeil last year to meet what has been shown to form a continuous series of recalls of problems such as mold, particle pollution and documentation is appropriate.

The recall came Rolaids other questions about the product label, the FDA mandate waived is a language.

Following McNeil, three types of tablets Rolaids Multi-Symptom Berry flavor not included the term "Does not meet USP" the fact that the products reflect not tested in the USP-sanctioned protocols.

The FDA does not require such testing, but products containing the phrase in the box.

Reuters estimates that some 47 million packages of various products McNeil in the new recall included.

To resolve the company closed the plant in Fort Washington in April to manufacturing problems. McNeil said he does not have a timetable for the replacement products put back into the supply chain.

This recall is not linked to action last week by the FDA to limit the amount of paracetamol in prescription products.

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