Liquid Tylenol Recall

McNeil Consumer Healthcare has issued a voluntary recall of some its Children and Infant Liquid Tylenol Products that were manufactured between April of 2008 and June of 2008.

The Tylenol recall is a result of an inactive ingredient not meeting quality standards. The company pulled the product as a precautionary measure.

Children’s Tylenol, with the active ingredient is acetaminophen, has also faced an over-dose problem in regards to some of its Children’s and Infants Melt aways and Soft Chews. The design of the Melt away and Soft Chew packages include some blister voids that contain one tablet while some others contain two per void. Concern has been raised that the labeling on the carton and the back of the cavities that contain two tablets may lead the consumer to believe that two tablets provide a total of only 80mg when two-tablets are really a total of 160mg which, when consumed by a child, can lead to over-dosing. Although this problem is of much concern it is not the reason for the recent recall nor are the Melt aways or Soft Chew a part of this particular recall.

The following Children’s and Infant Tylenol products and lot numbers have been recalled:

• Children's Tylenol Plus Cold MS Suspension 4 oz. Grape
  • SBM041, SBM067, SCM037, SDM027, SEM109

Baby Crib Recall Lawsuit

              The death of an infant has caused more Simplicity Drop side cribs to be recalled. The recall involves 400,000 Simplicity Drop Side Cribs that were made in Reading, Pennsylvania by Simplicity Inc. and SFCA Inc.

The company has been involved in major crib recalls in the past including the 1 million Simplicity and Graco cribs recalled in September of 2007 for a flaw in the design of the cribs that allowed the drop rail to be installed upside down. These cribs were the cause of two children’s death before finally being recalled. In April of 2009 the recall was expanded to include another 600,000 cribs that involved a different, newer style of plastic hardware from the cribs that were recalled in 2007. The newer hardware is identified by a flexible tab at the top of the lower tracks. Some of the model numbers included in the recall were: 8050, 8325, 8620, 8745, 8748, 8755, 8756, 8765, 8778, 8810, 8994, 8995, and 8996 and were sold nationwide by mass merchandisers, department stores, and children stores. They were sold From January of 2005 through until June 2009 for between 150 dollars and 300 dollars.