Bad Medicine

摘要

Breakdowns in quality control and supply chain oversight caused a slew of drug recalls. Big stories sometimes break when nobody's paying attention. I saw it happen during the last week of December, when many of us were still sipping eggnog. McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the maker of Tylenol, announced a recall of all lots of Tylenol Arthritis Pain caplets in 100-count bottles. Consumers had complained to the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary about gastrointestinal ailments and "a moldy, musty or mildew-like odor."