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National Wooden Pallet and Container Association

Tylenol Recall: the True Root Cause Begs Further Examination

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, April 11th, 2010

After 18-months of complaints, drug recalls and a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration for its "Failure to thoroughly investigate," McNeil Consumer Healthcare has proposed remediation measures that will do nothing to avert future contamination.

"Early on McNeil's stated theory for the contamination was taint from chemically-treated wood," said Bruce Scholnick, president and CEO of the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association. "We believe that purported theory was an attempt to identify a scapegoat that would cause McNeil the least amount of inconvenience. The chemical causing the contamination has a stronger affinity for plastic that it does for...

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