Local retailers have pulled popular children’s and infants’ liquid medications including Motrin, Tylenol, Zyrtec and Benadryl from Sacramento store shelves in the wake of a Friday recall of the over-the-counter remedies.
Stores including Rite Aid, Safeway, Target and Walgreen Co. removed infants’ and children’s liquid cough, cold and sore throat treatments from their shelves.
The voluntary recall announced by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a division of Johnson & Johnson, was triggered by what U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials called “manufacturing deficiencies which may affect quality, purity or potency.”
The deficiencies may include higher-than-specified concentrations of the medicine’s active ingredient, inactive ingredients, and tiny particles, McNeil officials said.
Officials at the FDA said the risk of serious health effects was remote, but told parents and caregivers not to give the products to their children.
“We want to be certain that consumers discontinue using these products and that they know what to do if they have specific concerns about a certain product,” said Food and Drugs Commissioner Margaret Hamburg in a statement.
Generic versions of the recalled products can be used, however.
Store shelves had already been thinned by an earlier recall of Tylenol arthritis pain medication in January. Those dosages have not yet been returned to shelves.
At the Rite Aid at 21st and S streets in midtown Sacramento, customers could still read small black-and-white notices Monday, notifying them of the product pulled four months ago.
The reason for the January recall was an investigation into consumers’ reports of an “unusual moldy, musty or mildew-like odor” that caused stomach distress in a small number of cases, according to Rite Aid notices.
The odor was later traced to a chemical applied to wood used to build wood pallets that transported the medications, according to McNeil officials.
Rite Aid spokeswoman Ashley Flower said she did not know when any of the recalled medications would be returned to Rite Aid shelves.
Stores including Rite Aid, Safeway, Target and Walgreen Co. removed infants’ and children’s liquid cough, cold and sore throat treatments from their shelves.
The voluntary recall announced by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a division of Johnson & Johnson, was triggered by what U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials called “manufacturing deficiencies which may affect quality, purity or potency.”
The deficiencies may include higher-than-specified concentrations of the medicine’s active ingredient, inactive ingredients, and tiny particles, McNeil officials said.
Officials at the FDA said the risk of serious health effects was remote, but told parents and caregivers not to give the products to their children.
“We want to be certain that consumers discontinue using these products and that they know what to do if they have specific concerns about a certain product,” said Food and Drugs Commissioner Margaret Hamburg in a statement.
Generic versions of the recalled products can be used, however.
Store shelves had already been thinned by an earlier recall of Tylenol arthritis pain medication in January. Those dosages have not yet been returned to shelves.
At the Rite Aid at 21st and S streets in midtown Sacramento, customers could still read small black-and-white notices Monday, notifying them of the product pulled four months ago.
The reason for the January recall was an investigation into consumers’ reports of an “unusual moldy, musty or mildew-like odor” that caused stomach distress in a small number of cases, according to Rite Aid notices.
The odor was later traced to a chemical applied to wood used to build wood pallets that transported the medications, according to McNeil officials.
Rite Aid spokeswoman Ashley Flower said she did not know when any of the recalled medications would be returned to Rite Aid shelves.
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