J&J Motrin RECALL

FDA: Motrin maker played us over recall

This is a drug company trying to quietly remove a defective product they produced off of the shelves. And this is exactly why the world needs journalists. I give my kudos to the reporter that uncovered this story. It is news worthy for a lot of reasons.

First of all, I think the first sentence of this post says it all. Let me sum it up for you with a few key words, "drug company" "quietly remove" "defective product". This is very unethical behavior that should be taken seriously. They are quite obviously trying to avoid the public eye with this. They're trying to classify what they're doing as a "retrieval" or "soft market withdraw" because it sounds better than recall. The bottom line is, they put a product on the shelves that could potentially harm others and no one really knows how. Sounds like it needs to be called a recall to me.

When companies try to do sneaky things like this it angers me, and I am a part of the general public, so if it angers me I'm sure it angers other people too. It makes me angry because Johnson & Johnson does not have the integrity to tell consumers that there is a bad product on the shelves. Instead they "hired contractors out to buy it off the shelves." But while they're doing that someone else could have purchased it and consumed it not knowing it was defective because J&J neglected to tell anyone!

So that's the public interest. There are health risks involved and the company that produced the product tried to cover it up. People deserve to know this information. Because, after reading this story, I for one am not planning on buying anything from J&J ever again. It's a principle. They lied, so I as a consumer cannot trust them. As I said before, if I feel this way it's likely others do.

Another element of the story that I think could peak some public interest is finding out how the FDA handled the matter. I think people like to see justice served. The article mentioned that J&J was being investigated by "lawmakers and regulators" so I guess there will be a follow up story as the investigation progresses. Which is good, because it keeps the public informed and helps readership.