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It's been a rough year for those in the branding business at big corporations. SEC probes, massive product recalls and one monstrous oil spill have taken a toll on the reputations -- and stock prices -- of some major companies. Here are 10 of the biggest losers so far.

Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil recalled another batch of over-the-counter medicines Thursday. The specific lots of Tylenol, Motrin and Benadryl products may have been contaminated with trace amounts of a chemical that gives them a musty or moldy odor.

Johnson & Johnson said Thursday that the Fort Washington, Pa., facility where it produced children's medications will probably stay shut down for the rest of 2010, meaning that no new supplies of those medicines will be available this year.

Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare has added five lots of its popular over-the-counter drugs, Benadryl and Tylenol, to its recall list and is offering consumers refunds or product coupons. The company says in a statement that the lots were "inadvertently omitted from the initial...

Blacksmith Brands, Inc., issued a recall of four of its PediaCare cold and allergy products for children on the heels of the poor conditions found in the McNeil Consumer Healthcare Fort Washington, Pa., plant, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced. The four product lines were made at the...

Top Food and Drug Administration officials told a congressional committee today that Johnson & Johnson, the venerable manufacturer of Children's Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl and other children's medicines, demonstrated a pattern of failing to control product quality at its McNeil Consumer...

The Food and Drug Administration is reportedly investigating reports of at least 775 serious side effects from drugs recalled by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a division of Johnson & Johnson. Included in those reports were 30 deaths, nearly all of which were not linked to McNeil's recall of...

An inspection report by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has revealed disturbing details about the McNeil Consumer Healthcare manufacturing plant that produced liquid versions of infant and children's products, including Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl, that were recalled last...

Parents and retailers have spent the last few days pulling bottles of children's Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl from their medicine chests and store shelves after the manufacturer and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent out a late Friday evening alert of a new recall. McNeil Consumer...

Some of the most popular over-the-counter drugs are being recalled due to a foul smell and reports of vomiting, diarrhea and other stomach upset, the McNeil Consumer Healthcare announced. The drugs have what is described as a moldy, musty or mildewy smell that has been attributed to the breakdown...