over-the-counter drugs for our children, and there s a safety problem. here s what nielsen told me this should be. i think it s a very large wake-up call for 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 a wake-up call, very similar to melamine, to the food safety issue, and heparin to the prescription drugs. so, what do you do if you ve got these meds right now in your medicine cabinet? johnson & johnson, mcneil issue adderall over the weekend for anybody who s got children s tylenol, children s motrin, children s benadryl or zyrtec should take them back to the place that they bought them. they want all of that off of the shelves. the fda says that the generic versions are safe but nielsen said to me this morning can you
about what s going on in this plant that the fda cited. this is a mcneil pharmaceuticals plant, a subsidiary of johnson & johnson outside philadelphia. here s the report, 17 pages of it. kyra, it is a scathing report. it says in the first page here that the raw material that had known contamination with bacteria was approved for use to manufacture several finished lots of children s and infant s tylenol drug products. here on another page, it says no corrective and preventive action was initiated for 46 consumer complaints regarding foreign material, black or dark specks, between june 2009 and april 2010. in other words, this company was told by consumers, people who were buying their product, hey, we think there s a problem with this and the company did nothing. we heard through all the political campaigns about problems with bringing in pharmaceutical drugs from places like canada, oh, we can t guarantee their safety. well, here we ve got a big problem in our backyard, a company that