Tylenol Maker to Pay $25 Million After Pleading Guilty in Contamination Case
Tylenol maker Johnson & Johnson agreed Tuesday to pay a $25 million settlement after pleading guilty to selling medicine contaminated with metal.
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Tylenol maker Johnson & Johnson agreed Tuesday to pay a $25 million settlement after pleading guilty to selling medicine contaminated with metal.
Time reports:
McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, pleaded guilty in a Federal District Court in Philadelphia to a criminal charge of manufacture and process of adulterated over-the-counter medicines. The company agreed to a $25 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
The company launched wide-ranging recalls in 2010 of over-the-counter medicines including Infants’ Tylenol and Children’s Motrin.
Those recalls came on the heels of others from 2008 to 2010 that involved hundreds of millions of bottles of Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl and other consumer products. Metal particles contaminated the liquid medicines, which also suffered from moldy odors and labeling problems.
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— Posted by Donald Kaufman.
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