Recall on Children's OTCs

43 Cold Medicines are being recalled by their manufacturer, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, after a discovery that they did not meet quality control!!

McNeil Consumer Healthcare in cooperation with the Federal Drug and Food Administration (FDA) are recalling Children Products:

· Tylenol Infants’ Drops

· Children’s Tylenol Suspensions

· Children’s Tylenol Plus Suspensions

· Motrin Infants’ Drops

· Children’s Motrin Suspensions

· Children’s Motrin Cold Suspensions

· Children’s Zyrtec Liquid in Bottles

· Children’s Benadryl Allergy Liquid in Bottles

(Click here and scroll down to see the full list of products being recalled.)

These products are manufactured in the United States and have been distributed in:

· United States

· Canada

· Dominican Republic

· Dubai (UAE)

· Fiji

· Guam

· Guatemala

· Jamaica

· Puerto Rico

· Panama

· Trinidad & Tobago

· Kuwait

The manufacturer stated that these products might have 1) the wrong amount of active ingredients specified in them 2) particles in them or 3) ingredients that have not meet internal testing.

You can reach the manufacturer at 1-888-222-6036 if you have questions or concerns.

Okay, now that I have shared the facts all I have to add is… HOW? At a time with all this technology and medical advancement do we have something to this degree occur? Granted they say they don’t expect any medical emergencies occurring as a result, but do they really know?

If it was alarming enough to pull what I am guessing to be millions of dollars worth of products off the shelves in 12 countries, it has to be worthy of concern. No manufacturer is going to risk losing that much money to pull a product that didn’t pose some sort of high risk consequence. I suspect we are not hearing the full truth, but that doesn’t surprise me none.

If you have administered or a medical facility has administered any of these products, you may want to flood their phone banks with a concerned call. And you many want to consider calling your pediatrician.