Thaindian News

September 30, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The furtive recall of Motrin packages along with a number of other non prescription drugs for children had been recalled by Johnson & Johnson recently. It led to a tarnishing of image thereby increasing the pressure on Bill Weldon, the CEO of the company. Bill Weldon has agreed to appear in front of a congressional committee on Thursday.

J& J had recalled the medicines including Tylenol after the US Food and Drug Administration officials found evidence of contamination of its products as well as dirty equipments at its factory located in Pennsylvania.

The McNeil operated unit remains shut but the effects have been far reaching. The sales figures dropped considerably apart from marring the image of the reputed Johnson & Johnson and its CEO Weldon had to face flak after leading the company successfully for eight long years.

Almost 200 million bottles of medicines have been pulled out since January this year. Although the analysts assure us that there has been no reported incidence of injuries by using any of the recalled products, the consumers have turned wary. They are now switching to cheaper, alternatives from other brand stores.

Weldon’s appearance over the issue will be the first since he failed to attend the last one scheduled in May, this year. He was recovering from a back surgery say the reports.

Weldon has also issued a statement which stated that Johnson & Johnson will be starting to ship 1 million bottles of children’s medicines that had been recalled in April. He continued saying that it was all a part of their efforts to take note and make improvements on quality issues that had been found at the McNeil unit. He went on to add that Johnson & Johnson would remain committed to solving the outstanding issues and would begin producing the children’s liquid products as quickly as possible.

The names of the products that would be shipped to the stores October 4 onwards were not disclosed by the company.