McNeil Consumer Healthcare

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: