May 5th, 2010
08:58 PM ET

Bacteria identified in Tylenol recall

The Food and Drug Administration confirmed Wednesday that the bacteria found at the Johnson & Johnson plant that produced the recalled children's medicines was Burkholderia cepacia, a bacteria often resistant to common antibiotics.

Johnson & Johnson first identified the bacteria to CNNMoney.com earlier in the day.

The company said that although the bacteria was found on some drums used by its vendor to transport the raw materials, those contaminated drums never reached the Fort-Washington, PA-plant that made the recalled drugs.

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  1. Erin Daugherty

    More Tylenol/Ibuprofen?Benedryl/Zyrtec warning. NOW they says it's contaminated.....but last week they only said wrong concentration. That's a bit scary. BUY GENERIC!!! It's cheaper and safer!!!

    May 5, 2010 at 9:25 pm | Report abuse |
  2. Jannah

    Generic is certainly cheaper, but how do you know that it's safer?!?!?!?!?! Often generic products are made in the same plants as the name brand drugs!

    May 5, 2010 at 11:26 pm | Report abuse |
  3. Carlos Kelly

    ibuprofen is definitely the best OTC painkiller for me. It helps me a lot to deal with my muscular pain.;.'

    May 19, 2010 at 10:49 pm | Report abuse |
  4. Jru

    Erin, seeing that today, Tylenol has offical stating a recall is hapenning, so is Equate – their generic name – for the same reason!

    May 26, 2010 at 8:22 am | Report abuse |
  5. Destiny

    Check the stores, all brands have been pulled.

    May 26, 2010 at 4:23 pm | Report abuse |
  6. Mark Exorcet

    Give me a break on the headline. "Bacteria identified *in* Tylenol recall?" It's as if the recalled medicines had contained some mystery bacteria that had just now been identified.

    June 3, 2010 at 12:16 am | Report abuse |
  7. Jay

    Tylenol's last big incident was in 1982 when people died from cyanide-laced Tylenol. That incident resulted in several changes to health and safety laws. I wonder if this incident will also have similar results.

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    June 4, 2010 at 6:06 pm | Report abuse |
  8. maria

    i gave this product to my daugher who was a beutiful 5 wk old premature newborn not knowing of its consonquences well sadly to say shes not here anymore not with us but she is up above with our heavenly father and my angel is waiting for mommy but first her soul needs to be set free we need anwsers not altopsy reports saying "UNKOWN" possibly SIDS GOD will help my angel and if any one out there herars our request please PRAY that we get anwsers so we can continue to be strong for each other and for my 5 yr old daughter who really took this harsh

    FROM A MOTHER CRYING OUT LOUD

    July 19, 2010 at 4:23 am | Report abuse |
  9. Katelyn Henderson

    ibuprofen is really effective in keeping the pain out.:,-

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