Get ready to check your medicine chest again. Pediacare distributor Blacksmith Brands has voluntarily recalled four children’s drugs that were manufactured by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the Johnson & Johnson company at the center of the J&J children’s medicine recall.
The four medications involved in the new recall are: PediaCare Multi-Symptom Cold 4oz.; PediaCare Long Acting Cough 4oz.; PediaCare Decongestant 4oz.; and PediaCare Allergy and Cold 4oz.
There have been no reported complaints or problems about the safety and purity of Pediacare products. However, Blacksmith said it took the precautionary step of initiating the recall because the medications were made at the McNeil plant in Fort Washington, Penn., which has been temporarily shut down by J&J while quality and process issues are addressed. A recent FDA inspection of the plant found it had serious problems in meeting the agency’s current good manufacturing practice requirements. In April, J&J recalled 40 widely used children’s medications made at the plant including Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec, and Benadryl after tiny metal particles were found in some lots and others were found to super potent.
Blacksmith Brands has arranged to make the recalled products at new manufacturing plants and expects to resume shipments of the recalled items in July from those new facilities.