Last updated on September 30th, 2021 at 10:19 am
Johnson & Johnson is recalling 200,000 bottles of Motrin Infants formula due to the risk that they contain tiny plastic particles.
Their McNeil unit said Friday that the recall affects three lots of its popular Motrin Infants’ Drops Original Berry Flavor. The company warned that the medicine may be contaminated with specs of PTFE, a plastic also used in Teflon coatings. No illnesses or injuries have been reported to date, according to the company.
The company said it’s unclear if the recalled bottles actually contain the particles, which were found in a different product during the manufacturing process. The company decided to issue the recall because both products contain the same shipment of ibuprofen from a third-party supplier.
“From our perspective, during the manufacturing process at the third party supplier, that’s when the particles got into the ibuprofen,” said McNeil Vice President Ed Kuffner, in an interview with the Associated Press.
The recalled half-ounce bottles can be identified by their lot numbers: DCB3T01, DDB4R01 and DDB4S01.
McNeil is asking retailers to take the affected products off store shelves. Consumers should stop using the affected medicine and call the company for a refund at 1-877-414-7709.
According to information obtained by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), tiny plastic particles (about the size of a poppy seed) were identified in a product lot before it was released to the market. The particles originated with a third party supplier of ibuprofen, which is the active ingredient in the Motrin infant drops. The company is taking every precaution to ensure that any lots that entered the market prior to the discovery of the plastic particles be recalled due to “the potential for adverse medical events.” However, the company does reiterate that the likelihood of a baby getting sick is very low. The recall is a voluntary, cautionary measure.
The recalled Motrin was manufactured at the company’s plant in Beerse, Belgium. McNeil’s primary manufacturing plant in Fort Washington, Pa., has been closed since the spring of 2010 after a string of recalls involving brands like Tylenol, Motrin and Zyrtec. That included the recall of more than 136 million children and infant over-the-counter medicines in April 2010, the largest recall of its kind.
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