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Tylenol to Pay $25 Billion After Pleading Guilty to Contamination
This Tuesday, Tylenol maker Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay a $25 million settlement after pleading guilty to selling medicine contaiminated 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.
Read more here.
—Posted by Donald Kaufman.
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Source: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/tylenol_to_pay_25_billion_after_pleading_guilty_to_contamination_20150312/
