McNeil Consumer Healthcare
| 11:00AM 6/30/2011
Consumer complaints of a foul, moldy odor has prompted McNeil Consumer Healthcare to recall almost 61,000 bottles of Tylenol Extra Strength Caplets in 225-count bottles, the company said.
The musty smell has been linked to trace amounts of 2,4,6-tribromoanisole -- also known as TBA -- which is a...
| 1:57PM 3/30/2011
Johnson and Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare recalled almost 800,000 bottles of Tylenol, Benadryl, Sudafed PE, and Sinutab products in two recalls linked to previous problems for the beleaguered over-the-counter drug manufacturer.
McNeil spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs told Consumer Ally about...
| 7:00PM 3/10/2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Justice Department took action against McNeil-PPC today, filing a proposed consent decree for failing to follow good manufacturing practices in the two-year wake of massive recalls of popular over-the-counter drugs including Tylenol, Rolaids, Benadryl...
| 2:00PM 2/07/2011
Consumers searching for Children's Zyrtec Chewable Tablets to to treat their kids' allergies will have a long wait until the over-the-counter medication is back on store shelves.
Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare is moving production of Children's Zyrtec chewables from an outside...
| 10:00AM 1/21/2011
Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge, so Consumer Ally has collected them in one place for you to check each week.
Here is this week's roundup of recalls:
Certain Poulan Pro Generators made by Husqvarna Professional Products Inc. are recalled because the...
| 5:30PM 1/18/2011
Millions of packages of Tylenol, Benadryl, Sudafed and Sinutab products are being recalled by manufacturer Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare due to questions about machine cleanliness and when the over-the-counter medicines were made.
A recall of certain lots of Rolaids...
| 3:45PM 1/12/2011
The state of Oregon is suing Johnson & Johnson for allegedly hiring people to buy Motrin pain reliever off the shelves so that the company would not have to issue a formal recall, nor tell consumers there was a problem.
Eight months after the formal recall was issued, Oregon Attorney General...
| 12:40PM 12/10/2010
Johnson & Johnson's troubled McNeil subsidiary announced a recall of more than 13 million packages of Rolaids because of consumer reports of metal and wood particles in the products.
McNeil Consumer Healthcare, which makes non-prescription drugs such as Tylenol and Benadryl, said it was...
| 9:30AM 12/02/2010
Johnson & Johnson-Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co. recalled 12 million bottles of Mylanta and thousands of packages of AlternaGel because flavoring used in the products contains a small amount of alcohol that isn't on the label, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The recall...
| 8:00AM 11/26/2010
Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be daunting, so Consumer Ally has put them in one place for you to check each week.
Here is a wrap-up of the past week's recalls: