Thursday, 09 November 2006 23:44
Painkiller Recall
Wal-Mart, Longs Drug
Stores, Raley's, Kroger and CVS are among the big chains that sold a popular
painkiller that is now being recalled.
Nationwide, 11 million bottles of acetaminophen which is the generic
version of Tylenol is being recalled, although officials stress the brand-name
version is fine. The pills were made by Perrigo for dozens of retailers. CVS
stores are pulling the pills from their shelves.
The worry is that there might be metal fragments in
the pills. According to federal regulators, they've already found everything from minuscule pieces of metal up to a wire that's one-third
of an inch long. Perrigo got concerned when it realized its pill-making
equipment was wearing down prematurely. Metal turned up in about 200 of the 70
million pills checked. The acetaminophen comes in 500-milligram caplets and was
bottled in various amounts.
