quote: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting the public to a voluntary recall being conducted by Perrigo Company (Perrigo) of Allegan, Michigan for 383 lots of acetaminophen 500mg caplets manufactured and distributed under various store-brands as a result of small metal fragments found in a small number of these caplets. Approximately 11 million bottles containing varying quantities of acetaminophen 500mg caplets are affected by this recall.
quote: FDA is currently investigating the cause of the metal particles found in the acetaminophen 500 mg. caplets. Perrigo originally informed FDA of this problem after discovering through their own regulatory quality control procedures that their tableting equipment was wearing down prematurely. The company is also investigating the cause of the problem. The ongoing investigations have revealed the presence of the metal fragments in caplets of acetaminophen, 500 mg. Perrigo reported to the FDA that 70 million caplets were passed through a metal detector; resulting in the discovery of approximately 200 caplets containing metal fragments ranging in size from "microdots" to portions of wire 8 mm in length.
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Wouldn't you know it, I have a bottle that is being recalled. I wonder if I should look throught the bottle and see if I can find a caplet with some metal in it.
E* so much for buying off brand tylenol*E
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I have some, too, but it hasn't been opened, as I take arthritis meds and am not supposed to take much of anything else for pain relief, but I keep a small bottle on hand for other people and do take it very rarely, myself.
Evil_eyes, I've bought store brands for many years and only wish I had discovered them sooner. I've saved a lot of $$ on them. This is the first time any of the store-brand products that I use have been recalled, and you might note that name-brand products are also recalled at times. So, go ahead and keep saving that money! Just be alert to news stories like this.
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I just bought some. The batch before and after mine was recalled. Not sure how I feel about that....
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I don't have any this time but we usually get the store brand from WalMart. I have a lot of family and friends that do also. I rarely send out a mass email about things but this is one of those times I did.
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I didn't see it sited on my local news site yet but they said on the 6:00 news that some of the bottles may have been sold as far as 3 years ago.
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Wow 3 years ago, I brought mine a few weeks back. Wal-Mart brand of acetaminophen. I know I have taken some of the pills TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI
I notice that after taking them I have had bouts of runny poop. I am not sure if it is link to the pills or just my luck. Suffice to say that I am not taking them anymore. I will still by off brand tylenol especially the off brand for rapid release tylenol.
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quote: Check your medicine cabinet: Millions of bottles of the widely used pain reliever acetaminophen - some sold as long as three years ago - are being recalled because they may contain metal fragments.
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