Personal Injury Law

Childrens Over-the-counter Liquid Medicines Recall Includes Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl

By Greg Owen

McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, has voluntarily begun a recall of certain children's over-the-counter liquid medicines due to issues with the potency, purity or quality of the products, the Food and Drug Administration said Saturday.

Consumers should stop using certain lots of infants' and children's Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl products because some of them may contain too much of the active ingredient, McNeil said in a statement late Friday. Other products may contain tiny particles or inactive ingredients that may not meet testing requirements, the company said.

The recalled products include lots of Tylenol Infants' Drops, Children's Tylenol Suspensions, Infants' Motrin Drops, Children's Zyrtec liquid in bottles and Children's Benadryl Allergy liquids in bottles.

McNeil advised consumers who bought the products to stop using them.

Although the potential for serious medical problems is remote, McNeil said, parents and caregivers should not give the products to children.

For more information about the recall from McNeil, consumers may go to mcneilproductrecall.com.

Full post as published by Glendale Personal Injury Lawyer on May 01, 2010 (boomark / email).