A subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson is voluntarily recalling 60,912 bottles of Extra Strength Tylenol caplets after detecting and receiving customer complaints of a musty, moldy odor in the pills. Moldy odor in medications has been linked to a chemical called tribromoanisole (TBA), a substance that may be transferred to meds from the pallets that are used in their storage and transport. The recall affects one lot (ABA619) of Tylenol painkillers that were made in February 2009. The bottles...
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Source: eOrthopod
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Source: eOrthopod
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Source: National Cancer Institutes
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