Johnson & Johnson, the world’s biggest seller of health products, has been plagued by recalls for several years. The company last week withdrew about 200,000 bottles of concentrated Motrin Infants’ Drops and is facing thousands of lawsuits following the recall of 93,000 ASR model hip implants in August 2010. And now recalling 5,000 vials of its Risperdal Consta, a long-acting drug for patients with schizophrenia, after testing found the medicine was no longer sterile.
Risperdal was most recently in the news for Johnson & Johnson illegal off label promotion of the drug and ordered to pay the DOJ $ 2.3 Billion!!!! Lack of accountability, dismissive behavior
Routine analysis showed one lot of the injected drug was contaminated with alternaria alternata, a common mold found in the environment, said Robyn Reed Frenze, a spokeswoman for the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based company’s Janssen unit. “The risk to patients is low,” Frenze said. “We don’t want to create unnecessary concern,” though the company thought it was important to provide the information to doctors and others who may still have the medicine on hand, she said.
Shouldn't there be concern over Johnson and Johnson's track record? Fines, recalls...boycott all Johnson & Johnson products until they can safely put the needs of consumer and patients ahead of profits by remaining out of the news for such behavior for 1 year!