FDA uncovers quality control problems at plant responsible for manufacturing recalled children's medicines.

According to the CBS Evening News  - "We're learning more tonight about last weekend's recall of children's medicine" manufactured by a unit of Johnson & Johnson, McNeil Consumer Healthcare.

The company voluntarily "recalled 43 over the counter medications, including Tylenol [acetaminophen] and Motrin [ibuprofen] for children and infants." Now, according to a recently released federal report, "inspectors found more than 20 manufacturing problems at a Pennsylvania plant, which has been shut down."

The report, which the FDA "sent to McNeil last Friday, before the recall, said the company had used raw materials with known bacterial contamination to make certain lots of infants' and children's liquid Tylenol," the New York Times.

"Samples of finished products tested negative for bacteria, however, and the risk to consumers was remote, agency officials said."

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FDA is investigating Children's Tylenol, Benadryl, Motrin, Zyrtec RECALL

The Food and Drug Administration continues to investigate. 

Further action by the FDA is pending.

The FDA is still gathering information. 

The recall is the fourth product recall McNeil has issued in the past year and the second major recall issued in 2010. In January, the company recalled several hundred lots of a number of adult and children's medicines, including Benadryl, Motrin, Rolaids, Simply Sleep, St. Joseph Aspirin and Tylenol, after consumers reported moldy smells coming from the pills that were manufactured at a plant in Puerto Rico; some cases of nausea, stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea were associated with the recalled products.

RECALL NOTICE: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm210443.htm

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