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MCNEIL CONSUMER HEALTHCARE ANNOUNCES VOLUNTARY RECALL OF ONE PRODUCT LOT OF TYLENOL® EXTRA STRENGTH CAPLETS 225 COUNT DISTRIBUTED IN THE U.S.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- June 28, 2011 - Fort Washington, PA – McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., is recalling at the retail level one product lot (60,912 bottles) of TYLENOL®, Extra Strength Caplets, 225 count bottles, distributed in the U.S. The recalled product was manufactured in February, 2009. McNeil is taking this action following a small number of odor reports, including musty, moldy odor. The uncharacteristic musty, moldy odor has been linked to the presence of trace amounts of a chemical known as 2,4,6-tribromoanisole (TBA).

This voluntary action is being taken as a precaution and the risk of serious adverse medical events is remote. TBA can generate an offensive odor and has been associated with temporary and non-serious gastrointestinal symptoms.
 




Time to buy another profitable company and blanket analysts with positive press releases in the hope these continued recalls get lost in the euphoria of continued dividend payouts and higher stock targets.
 


Time to layoff a couple of hundred more in Fort Washington or Raritan. The analysts will like that and the stockholders will be happy - who cares about the consumer!! Never let a crisis go to waste!
 


Relax - look at the manuacture date - February 2009. This is linked back to the 2nd recall due to chemical leaking from treated wood on the pallets into the packaging. Someone probably realized that they had more lot numbers using those pallets then previously thought and thus this notice.
 


Relax - look at the manuacture date - February 2009. This is linked back to the 2nd recall due to chemical leaking from treated wood on the pallets into the packaging. Someone probably realized that they had more lot numbers using those pallets then previously thought and thus this notice.

Even if this is the case, it doesn't give me a warm fuzzy that J&J couldn't trace back the lot numbers accurately and completely. What we're looking at is an overall repeated pattern of sloppy supply chain management and senior executives who would rather not know.
 




Even if this is the case, it doesn't give me a warm fuzzy that J&J couldn't trace back the lot numbers accurately and completely. What we're looking at is an overall repeated pattern of sloppy supply chain management and senior executives who would rather not know.

Pallets are not assigned numbers and are frequently reused. It isn't that management didn't know what lot numbers were made at that time, they weren't sure exactly which lot numbers used the bad pallets versus the older "good" pallets. It was discovered recently that more of the lots used the new "bad" pallets and thus this recall.
 




Pallets are not assigned numbers and are frequently reused. It isn't that management didn't know what lot numbers were made at that time, they weren't sure exactly which lot numbers used the bad pallets versus the older "good" pallets. It was discovered recently that more of the lots used the new "bad" pallets and thus this recall.

Ummm... then does it occur to anyone that maybe pallet numbers should be assigned numbers? How is inventory management handled if not by pallet?
 


Ummm... then does it occur to anyone that maybe pallet numbers should be assigned numbers? How is inventory management handled if not by pallet?

Uhm...you're joking, right? That would be like asking McDonalds to track every single wrapper they put a hamburger in - except the wrappers are also used by Burger King and Wendys too.

Pallets are frequently re-used between suppliers and manufacturers. There is no universal system to keep track of them as they also tend to break after fewer trhan a dozen uses.
 


Uhm...you're joking, right? That would be like asking McDonalds to track every single wrapper they put a hamburger in - except the wrappers are also used by Burger King and Wendys too.

Pallets are frequently re-used between suppliers and manufacturers. There is no universal system to keep track of them as they also tend to break after fewer trhan a dozen uses.

Oh, OK, it's too hard to figure out so just screw it and allow the fallout to destroy your company's reputation. Pathetic.
 




Stupid is as stupid does. This person doesn't understand what you are explaining, don't bother trying to educate them.

I do get it. The current systems and processes make it a ridiculous endeavor to try to track a physical pallet. All I'm saying is that this pallet issue is apparently a risk for the company-- so what are we going to do to influence the systems and processes to mitigate that? I know it may be complex... but the answer can't just be "do nothing."
 


I do get it. The current systems and processes make it a ridiculous endeavor to try to track a physical pallet. All I'm saying is that this pallet issue is apparently a risk for the company-- so what are we going to do to influence the systems and processes to mitigate that? I know it may be complex... but the answer can't just be "do nothing."

Buy better pallets maybe? Remember - they switched suppliers in order to save $. Never had an issue with the previous supplier - or at least one that generated recalls like this.
 


Have you ever been in a DC and seen the sheer number of pallets that are there? You can't just twinkle your nose and say "Swap out pallets."

I know because I've been to a couple of the Consumer DCs that there is an aggressive campaign to not only quarrantine suspect pallets when they come in the door, but also to swap out the pallets that are within the four walls of the DC. It still takes time to make all this happen and this is NOT value-added work - it is definitely in the realm of risk avoidance.
 





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