FDA recall

[respirate]

Tylenol Arthritis Pain Caplet, 100 count bottles: Recall of all lots

[gymdandee]

Pharmaceutical recalls were up a whopping 400 percent last year you can always toss a tainted toy in the trash, it's pretty hard to ditch a defective drug you've already swallowed.
Last year, 1,742 meds were recalled  up from 426 in 2008, according to trade publication Gold Sheet, which analyzed FDA data. Of course,The Pharm. Co. is quick to point out that the bulk of those recalls -- more than 1,000 -- came from a single drug repackager, Advantage Dose, which is now out of business.

if you removed every one of that company's bad meds, you're still left with an increase of more than 50 percent over 2008  with no signs of slowing. We've already seen 300 drug recalls in the first half of the year alone.
The Pharm. wants you to believe that the real risks come from low-cost generics rushed onto the market, a tactic designed to make you choose pricey brand-name drugs.
But look at the headlines and you know that's not the whole story.
Tylenol, swine flu vaccine how about Avandia
I jumped the gun on the last one Avandia hasn't been recalled (not yet).
What's going on? The carelessness and greed, combined with the drug manufacturing in places like China and India. Recalls of overseas-made drugs increased by 58 percent last year.
Remember where the recalled children's Tylenol was made? I bet it looks positively sterile next to some of Pharm. faraway Third World pill mills!
That means you can expect more of these drug recalls, not less. You can try to keep tabs on the FDA Web site, but in most cases, it's a wasted effort -- because recalls can take weeks and even months of behind-the-scenes negotiating to unfold.
By the time they're announced publicly, the damage has already been done.

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm

[FurballsMom]

I've read about this recall and seen it on the news.  It has to do with mold.

[Paxiled]

C-Span?  All they do is set up a camera and let people see what other people are saying and doing.  C-Span itself has no input into that.  You mean you'll never watch a legislative hearing to see what you're government is doing, or never watch a book review moderated by someone with no axe to grind?  I mean, people on C-Span will say things you won't like, but C-Span just sets up the camera or hosts the call-in, they don't say the things you don't like.  

[M4Y0U]

I go with the selective news approach. Daily visits to selected websites, subscriptions to selected scientific and medical podcast as well as my monthly magazines such as Nature, Scientific American, Physics Today, Science Magazine and Science Readers. respirate just convinced me to add the FDA website into my dailies.  

What is good with technology these days is that you can be very selective regarding the kind of information you want to get and newspapers make me angry for some reasons that are totally personal.

repirate, lol, i like your input about C SPAN, it's good to keep some sanity in each of us and stay away from those things.

My opinions....

[respirate]

Papers are good but will never watch C SPAN again.

[Paxiled]

Actually, folks, this appeared in the newspaper.  Good thing to read one every day.

[M4Y0U]

Thanks!

You should always include your references in your posts which, from a scientific point of view, is considered essential.

[respirate]

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm195690.htm

[M4Y0U]

Can we know why they recalled the lots? My mom use these and i would be very interested in knowing the reasons and the sources please!

Thanks,
M4