Cargo of Tylenol Stolen in Jacksonville Florida

Cargo thefts seem to be on the rise… The latest alert comes via FDA press release this week:

McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA), and other law enforcement officials to recover cases of select lots of TYLENOL® Arthritis and TYLENOL® PM products that were stolen from a cargo terminal at the Jacksonville Port Authority in Jacksonville, Florida on September 25, 2009.

The products stolen were cases of:

• TYLENOL® Arthritis Pain Caplet 150 count bottles (57,456 bottles) Lot 09XMC112


• TYLENOL® PM Caplet 2 count packets (180,000 2 caplet pouches) Lot 09XMC110

Consumers who received or purchased either of these products should check to see if they are from the stolen lots (lot numbers listed above).

McNeil Consumer Healthcare and the FDA are asking for the public's help in reporting any information regarding the stolen TYLENOL® products to FDA's Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) by calling 800-551-3989 or by visiting the OCI Web site (http://www.fda.gov/OCI).

To view the entire announcement visit: http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/CriminalInvestigations/ucm186269.htm.

FDA Announces Fraudulent H1N1 Influenza Products List

The Food and Drug Administration released a listing to warn consumers about Web sites that are illegally marketing unapproved, unclear and unauthorized products in relation to the H1N1 Flu Virus.

The listing includes a wide variety of Web sites that promote unapproved supplements, masks, gels, sanitizers, kits, teas and testing products.

The FDA also announced that until evidence to the contrary is presented to it formally, the owner of the listed Web site is considered responsible for promoting the unapproved, uncleared, or unauthorized products.

To view the entire listing, visit the web link: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/h1n1flu/

Stolen Insulin Vials Resurface in U.S. Market

Stolen vials of insulin have resurfaced at a Houston area medical center. The 10-mL vials of Levemir are from lots XZF0036, XZF0037, and XZF0038. The stolen insulin discovered was part of a shipment of 129,000 vials which was stolen in February this year in route from a Novo Nordisk facility in North Carolina.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning the public that insulin from these lots may not have been stored and handled properly and therefore is not safe for use. Patients with Levemir vials from these lots should contact Nov Nordisk Customer Care Center at 800-727-6500 for instructions.

The agency said it had received one report of a patient who had an adverse event due to poor blood-glucose control after injecting insulin detemir from one of the three lots.