WASHINGTON — Johnson & Johnson has failed to protect against contamination of its children’s Tylenol, Motrin, and Zyrtec medicines at its Fort Washington, Pa., plant, regulators say.
The world’s largest health products company did not take action after receiving 46 consumer complaints in the past 10 months about “foreign materials, black or dark specks’’ in the products, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday in a 17-page report on its website.
Last month, inspectors found that employees had not received proper training in so-called good manufacturing practices, the FDA said.
Some products have been recalled.
A spokesman for McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a unit of J&J that sells the products, did not immediately return calls yesterday seeking comment.
The potential for the recalled products to cause serious medical reactions is remote, McNeil said Friday. Still, consumers shouldn’t use them.
