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Your child or children tylenol, motrin, benadryl, stop and listen what we have to tell you about right now. it's pretty important. you heard about the recall a few days ago. now we know why. an fda report reveals a discovery where the medicines were made. bacteria were found there and it's too early for them to say what it is. the fda and drugmakers are calling to parents to buy generic brands for now. earlier on "american morning" john roberts spoke to a consumer safety officer about that recall. here's what he told him. >> think it's a very large wake-up call for the over-the-counter drug in...

Reimportation of drugs from places like canada, and we can't be guaranteed that the drugs are safe. don't do that. here we have a serious problem in our own backyard. how much of a wake-up call is this? >> i think it's a very large wake-up call for the over-the-counter drug industry. it's well-known that for the prescription drug industry 80% of the ingredients are imported. fda does very little foreign inspection work on over-the-counter drug suppliers of ingredients active and inactive. and this is is wake-up call very similar to melamine, to the food safety issue and heparin for the prescri...

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