McNeil Consumer Healthcare Products Recall
I just wanted to warn you all that there has been a huge recall on quite a few McNeil Consumer Healthcare Products. Select Tylenol, Benadryl, Motrin, Rolaids, Simply Sleep, and St. Joseph products are included in this recall. Go on over here to check out all the products that have been recalled. You can also go here and read the Press Release.
If you have purchased any of these products, stop using them and contact McNeil Consumer Healthcare for instructions on a refund or replacement. For these instructions or information regarding how to return or dispose of the product, consumers should log on to the internet at www.mcneilproductrecall.com or call 1-888-222-6036 (Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern Time, and Saturday-Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time).
(Thanks for the heads up on this, Tiffany!)
You really just need to check your lot number that is listed on the package to see if it is affected. The list of the lot numbers is listed on the link.
Collin, Thanks so much for the post! I ran to my medicine drawer to check and we are okay but I will let my sister know because she recently bought some of these! Thanks agian!
Thanks for the post.. Of course I just checked and we have one of the Tylenol products.. UGH~
I have two of the affected products- luckily still unopened. I emailed them last night about getting either refunded or replacements- but wondering if it would be easier just to take them back to Wal-Mart and get refunded there. Anybody tried?
I have a bottle of Motrin that was recalled – I called McNeil and they’re sending a replacement coupon.
Thank you for posting this. I just checked and the last bottle I bought is recalled. Thankfully I have not opened it yet.
Thanks Collin,
Gotta love the US policy “considered safe until people start dying, babies are deformed or everybody gets cancer”. God forbid a multi-billion dollar company do extensive testing on the chemicals they’re putting into their consumers bodies.
As stated per website and press release:
This is NOT the medicince itself but the chemical used to treat wood pallets the product is transported on.
We have lots of liquid Children’s Tylenol & Motrin …all our codes are fine. Thanks for sharing this news – sometimes I think these blogs are better about getting info spread than the FDA. Maybe because more people read these coupon sites? 🙂
Thanks! I have 2 bottles…and unopened, thank heavens. I have an email into McNeil. Thanks!
I also have a bottle that I would have purchased last month. Please, Please check your medicene. My bottle would have been in the mouths of my children.
Thanks!
Thanks for the heads up. I bought a bottle just last week that is being recalled, I’m so glad I saw this post before I opened it!
Does McNeil make any generic versions of these meds? Anyone know?
All of my bottles are fine, or are they? Are they fine just until the next recall or are they really safe? How do we know for sure? Anyone have the answer?
Thanks for the heads up. Just an FYI though, even if your bottle has a lot number being recalled doesn’t mean it is part of the recall. I called this morning after reading this and finding a few of what I believed to be recalled products in my medicine cabinet. I gave them the lot numbers AND the expiration dates from the boxes I had and they were not part of the recall. I guess the expiration dates have to match too.
I checked all 4 bottles and my Chewable Junior Motrin was part of the recall. It makes me sick to think that I gave this to my daughter, especially since she has a heart condition and we are so carefull about what we give her! It was several months ago that she had taken this so she must be ok! Thanks Collin for getting the word out! Also when I looked this up on the website it said it was part of the recall, but when I called the computer automated system it said no, so I just sent a email since you can not talk to an actual person.
Thanks Collin! Of course I have 3 bottles that are recalled. I am not happy about it at all. What is wrong with all these companies lately?? It’s not ok, this stuff goes into our kids.
maybe dumb question but I only see “bottles” of pills that are being recalled….I don’t see any bottles of liquid being recalled…do you all agree…I’m a little slow today.
Since it was a voluntary recall (meaning the FDA did not require it), the effects are not that serious. It is still the right thing to do by McNeil, and I commend them for pulling these products for a potential safety issue.
Yes very good point. Im in the auto field and we had shipments come in from outside borders on skids. Well a few years ago the govt. decided to have these outside countries use specially treated wood pallets to ward of bugs/spiders coming across the borders on or in the wood skids. They skids do have a smell to them. I can see if these were “freshly” treated skids how this stuff could poss. seep into the products. Its also very poss. you could have this recalled product and receive zero issues since it could be on a skid that was treated and sat for a while before products were placed on them. And or just the ones on the pallet or closer to the bottom of the skid could get contaminated and not the ones farther away.
Either way, Im glad to see them on this!. They will prop. switch over to plastic or metal skids/pallets to avoid this all together.
Thanks for posting this! I had 3 recalled items in my medicine cabinet!!!
Thanks for the post. My son Memphis recently had a fever and wouldn’t take the liquid medicine I had. So I went to the store to get some Tylenol meltaways, and it turns out I was giving him the recalled product, and I never figured out what made him more sick. Now I know. Good thing I only gave it to him twice. Now I know not to give it to him again. Thanks so much for the warning.
I also forgot to mention that the website they have put up, to check to see if your lot number has been recalled, isn’t working properly. I highly suggest you manually find your product, and the lot number. It kept telling me that the lot number wasn’t recalled, but I found it manually, and it was recalled. I also called the 1888 number, and they said it was in fact recalled, and that my son displayed the symptoms for the recall. Now a product specialist is suppose to call me back.
Thanks for the heads up. I checked and none of our Infants Tylenol is affected. What scares me is how many drugs are being recalled AND how many drugs are now talked about on TV commercials for lawyers offices about class action lawsuits 🙁
Thank you! Turns out I have 4 unopened boxes all included on the recall! I think I even gave a box to my friend and my brother (got ’em all free of course). What a pain. I am on hold with company now, they are getting my info.
This is straight from the Tylenol website:
“Based on this investigation, McNeil Consumer Healthcare has determined that the reported uncharacteristic smell is caused by the presence of trace amounts of a chemical called 2,4,6-tribromoanisole (TBA). This can result from the breakdown of a chemical that is sometimes applied to wood that is used to build wood pallets that transport and store product packaging materials. The health effects of this chemical have not been well studied but no serious events have been documented in the medical literature.”
So, essentially, it’s not the actual medicine itself that is the problem. It’s from the wood pallets that the plastic bottles were stored on before they were ever shipped to the Tylenol factory, and those particular bottles transferred the chemical to the medicine. Just FYI, and HTH.
Wow your ontop of things Collin! I just read this on MSN.com and was going to add a link it abd tell you! but then I see you had this covered before I read it today.
Thanks for the information I called and I had a Tylenol product and a Rolaids product affected they are sending me a coupon to replace them
Thanks for taking the time to warn your readers about something so important like this. Thanks for caring. We love you Collin !!!!!!
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I have been using one of the Rolaids that is recalled and it does smell off, I just didn’t pay much attention to it. I’m grossed out that I have almost half the bottle gone so I have been taking it to cure indigestion, but I have been feeding myself mold. I also have two opened bottles of Tylenol that are in the recall along with 2 more unopened Tylenol, 1 unopened Motrin, and 1 more unopened Rolaids.
Just checked my stock…none are part of the recall. It is a little scary that something like this can happen – this is medicine that I give to my kids – but I’m glad that the company is doing the right thing and recalling them.
We have a half empty bottle of the Junior Motrin that has been recalled (lot # matches one on link). 🙁 I gave this to my kids back in October/November when we suspected they had mild case of swine flu. Trying to remember if we have used it since. Honestly, I think I’m going to just throw it out and not even call the company if all they are giving out is a product replacement coupon. I don’t trust these brands any more. Guess we’re switching to Children’s Advil.
We also have an almost empty bottle of Motrin Jr. from November & just like then, the one that was taking that stayed so sick for much longer than the other children who were taking Motrin for different ages. NICE!!!! Thanks for harming my children Motrin!!!!
Just checked and of course I have 3 opened bottles(almost all empty) of Junior Strength Chewable Motrin that are recalled. Not happy about this. Will be calling them tomorrow.
Thank you so much for posting this! I hadn’t heard about the recall but after viewing this post I checked our medicine cabinet. We had a bottle of Tylenol and two bottles of Rolaids that were included in the recall.
I just emailed them about how to get the items replaced – I hope they have set up some of in-store returns. I would hate to have to replace these at full price while I wait for them to mail me coupons.