Last week, J&J had a silent recall for another 5 million bottles of children’s Benadryl and Motrin. The last recall is called a “Silent Recall” because J&J isn’t telling people about it. In fact, the company is being pretty secretive.
According to The Wall Street Journal, no press releases were issued, as the company has done in every previous product recall. In fact, you can’t find any news about this latest recall on J&J’s website and even on its McNeilRecall Twitter page. So, just how consumers are to learn of these Silent Recalls is unclear. Maybe J&J is now relying on some form of extrasensory perception (ESP) as its communication’s strategy.
The medications were manufactured at J&J’s now-closed Fort Washington, Pennsylvania facility months ago, but the company only recently decided to act. The company claims that the recall "doesn’t affect consumers" and that the company has no evidence of patient harm.
Kudos to The Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan D. Rockoff and Dow Jones’ Peter Loftus for breaking the news of the Silent Recall!
