More Tylenol Extra Strength pills recalled

A couple of months ago when I went to the store to get some Tylenol, there were none on the shelf. I mean not a one. So I stood there trying to figure out what was going on. Then it came to my memory about a story I had read online earlier in the week. My problem was, I thought it was a specific dosage, not every type of Tylenol. Needless to say, I bought a generic and prayed it would give me the relief I needed. This seems pretty serious for Tylenol. I wonder if they are going to be able to recover from this latest recall.

Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday announced another Tylenol recall due to a musty moldy odor linked to a trace chemical.

The company's McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit is recalling one product lot of Tylenol Extra Strength Caplets made in February 2009 and distributed in the U.S. The recall totals 60,912 bottles, each of which has 225 caplets.

McNeil said it has received a small number of reports about the pills' odor, which has been linked in past J&J recalls to the presence of trace amounts of "2,4,6-tribromoanisole." TBA is a byproduct of a chemical preservative sometimes used on shipping pallets.

Besides causing an unpleasant odor, TBA has been associated with temporary and non-serious gastrointestinal symptoms.

Since September 2009, New Brunswick, N.J.-based Johnson & Johnson has had about two dozen recalls of prescription and nonprescription medicines, replacement hips, contact lenses and diabetes test strips, including tens of millions of bottles of children's and adult Tylenol and Motrin.

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