11 million Perrigo Acetaminophen 500mg Pain Reliever Caplets Recalled
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Enoch Choi
I conference call for 8 hours with 7 emergency room physicians every Thursday, working on Sutter's electronic medical record for EDs, Epic ASAP. Today, the hottest news is the 11 million generic caplet Tylenol recall of private labeled Perrigo "Acetaminophen 500mg Pain Reliever Caplets" due to contamination with metal particles. That means that pharmacies, distributors and grocers that relabel Perrigo acetaminophen under their own brand possibly have their bottles contaminated. This is an FDA class 2 recall, which is voluntary for the manufacturer due to the low risk of harm to patients ingesting contaminated capsules. Still, I wouldn't want to be eating metal with my pain reliever. I wouldn't want any more hassles while going through airport check-in, although I suspect the amount of contaminated acetaminophen I'd need to ingest to set off alarms would kill me from liver failure first. I'm surprised it's not more widely publicised since acetaminophen is one of the most commonly used pain relievers, and you have to look at the fine print on your bottle to see if yours is from an involved lot number. You may want to even ask your nurse if the acetaminophen they're giving you to take while in the clinic or hospital is from an affected batch since major healthcare distributors are involved as well.
Click here for:
Involved pharmacies, distributors & grocers
Batch numbers
Perrigo Co.
via AP/SJ Merc, AP/topix, and 889 articles at Google news.
Tags:
Photo credit: Matt Browne
3 Comments:
At Fri Nov 10, 06:52:00 AM 2006,
Anonymous said…
I have one pill left from a bottle of 100.My bottle has a number that is listed but I have had no ill effects.I just bought 2 bottles of pills but they are the little red pills. I guess they are ok. Has anyone heard anything about them? I think they are ok tho.
At Fri Nov 10, 07:54:00 AM 2006,
Anonymous said…
I've bought two bottles of 6GEO659 which are on the list. I guess it's my tough luck. I find nothing posted about getting a refund for my expenditure. "Let the buyer beware".
n
At Fri Nov 10, 08:13:00 AM 2006,
Anonymous said…
THE RECALL OF THE GENERIC TYLENOL SHOULD NOT HAVE TO HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE. IF THEY ARE PUTTING THESE TABLETS UNDER SCANNERS AND FINDING METAL IN THEM, THEN THEY SHOULD DO ALL OF THEIR MEDICATIONS THAT WAY DURING PRODUCTION. TO KEEP THIS FROM HAPPENING. WE HAVE THE GENERIC TYLENOL WITH ONE OF THE LOT NUMBERS LISTED. OUR PURCHASE WAS FROM WALMART. THIS UPSETS ME TERRIBLY, BECAUSE WE COULD HAVE EFFECTS FROM THIS PRODUCT LATER ON THAT ARE NOT SHOWING UP RIGHT AWAY.
ALL THE COMPANY IS ASKING US TO DO IS CALL AND REQUEST A KIT TO RETURN THE MEDICATION!
Post a Comment
<< Home