I got an email about this today, because I work in quality for a J&J company (although not the company in question.) J&J tends to be pretty hardcore about this sort of thing; they'd rather take the PR hit that comes with issuing a recall than risk causing harm to the consumer, even if the risk is remote. To give you an idea what I mean, last year my company put out a recall on a product that was shipped on a certain type of wooden pallet, because the pallets smelled kinda funny. Since they couldn't be 100% sure the product hadn't been affected by whatever was causing the musty smell, they pulled all the affected lots.
Evidently this particular recall is based around a product quality issue associated with a specific manufacturing plant - my guess would be that a piece of equipment or batch of raw material failed inspection, so now they're tracking down all the lots produced on that machine/using that batch, just to be safe. Depending on where yours came from, it may be perfectly fine, so it's worth checking out the links and entering the NDC numbers on what you have in your medicine chest to see if it's part of the bad lot; it might not be.
Of course it goes without saying that they should have caught this long before the product hit the market (and I'm sure some heads are gonna roll over that!), but it sounds like they're doing their best to ensure the safety of the consumer before someone actually gets hurt, which is a hell of a lot better than covering it up.
Lucky me at least, I have 3 of 4 in the NDC being recalled. Now that they have a specific ndc/input macro I can see if I'm still affected.
But I agree. With meds, something like dosage of the active ingredient isn't something to chance. Esp given how many parents don't dbl check diff medications aren't duplicating/overlapping. My ex liked to give me shit about how many Dimetapp & Triaminics I had - but when I was preggo I was able to take something when I got a cold. If a toddler can take, was better than asthmatic mother who couldn't breathe or sleep.
IMO both adult & kids meds need to have the Tylenol/Motrin taken out of them, so folks treat what they actually HAVE for symptoms.
Evidently this particular recall is based around a product quality issue associated with a specific manufacturing plant - my guess would be that a piece of equipment or batch of raw material failed inspection, so now they're tracking down all the lots produced on that machine/using that batch, just to be safe. Depending on where yours came from, it may be perfectly fine, so it's worth checking out the links and entering the NDC numbers on what you have in your medicine chest to see if it's part of the bad lot; it might not be.
Of course it goes without saying that they should have caught this long before the product hit the market (and I'm sure some heads are gonna roll over that!), but it sounds like they're doing their best to ensure the safety of the consumer before someone actually gets hurt, which is a hell of a lot better than covering it up.
Reply
But I agree. With meds, something like dosage of the active ingredient isn't something to chance. Esp given how many parents don't dbl check diff medications aren't duplicating/overlapping. My ex liked to give me shit about how many Dimetapp & Triaminics I had - but when I was preggo I was able to take something when I got a cold. If a toddler can take, was better than asthmatic mother who couldn't breathe or sleep.
IMO both adult & kids meds need to have the Tylenol/Motrin taken out of them, so folks treat what they actually HAVE for symptoms.
Reply
Leave a comment