Contaminated Children’s Tylenol Plea Underscores Need for Oversight

That said, if you’ve ever spent the extra few dollars to buy a name brand medication because you thought it might be safer than a generic brand, you can appreciate the irony of these defects.We all want to believe that companies which produce products that will go into our bodies are on ever-vigilant watch for manufacturing flaws that could put us in danger. That may, in fact, be the case at many food and drug producers, although we are not necessarily convinced that the FDA is always watching as closely as it needs to be.The problem with that comforting illusion is that these companies employ hundreds, if not thousands, of people, and not all of them take their responsibility for your safety as seriously as they ought to. All it takes is one corner-cutting manager to turn an otherwise safe drug production facility into a distributor of potentially defective drugs. It could be weeks or months before anyone realizes what has happened – perhaps at the expense of people who have been harmed.If you think you’ve purchased a defective medication, notify the company and give them a chance to address the situation. Do not discard the product, though, and keep it in a safe place. Then call the Scranton med mal and personal injury attorneys at Scartelli Olszewski. We can help.