FDA May Take Action Against Johnson & Johnson
Posted on June 1st, 2010 by Oddo & Babat, P.C.
(5/28, B1, Singer) reports that McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the division of Johnson & Johnson that recalled millions of bottles of liquid children鈥檚 Tylenol, 鈥渕ay face criminal penalties, product seizures, or other sanctions, an official from the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.鈥 At a Congressional hearing yesterday, the principal deputy commissioner at the FDA, Joshua Sharfstein, said that the agency found 鈥渁 pattern of violations in manufacturing and quality control practices鈥 that 鈥渓ed to a number of recent recalls.鈥
Following revelations at the hearing that McNeil hired contractors to buy the products under orders not to mention the word 鈥榬ecall,鈥 the chairwomen of Johnson & Johnson鈥檚 consumer division, Colleen Goggins, apologized 鈥渢o the mothers and fathers and caregivers for the concern and inconvenience鈥 caused by the recall.
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