{"id":486,"date":"2010-05-07T09:38:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T17:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2010-05-10T09:47:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T17:47:15","slug":"murky-at-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/murky-at-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Murky at Best"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It's even brighter in real life.<\/p><\/div>\n

On Tuesday our tiny, jail cell of a powder room was painted. It’s navy blue stripes with matte and gloss finishes except for an apple green ceiling and accent wall. It\u2019s awesome. I\u2019ve been snickering to myself, like I have a secret, all week. I<\/em> have an apple green wall. It\u2019s not a big one but it\u2019s bright<\/em> green. I\u2019m so clever, artistic, daring. I\u2019m so damn pleased with myself.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good thing my bathroom is making me so happy because every time I turn on the news and listen to the reports of the oil spilling into the gulf, I have to hold back sobs. And this Tylenol recall business… Hey, Johnson & Johnson, what the hell is going on over there?<\/p>\n

In April, FDA inspectors stopped by the manufacturing plant for Children\u2019s Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl and Zyrtec for a routine inspection and found problems with \u201cquality-control methods<\/a> and manufacturing processes, including a failure to track customer complaints and spot trends that may signal systemic problems, a lack of written procedures and a failure to adequately train employees.\u201d A routine inspection? You\u2019d think they\u2019d get things in order for the inspectors; you know, tidy the place up and make it look real nice. Maybe they did, maybe this was the plant looking its best.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also this: \u201cFederal investigators<\/a> found that raw materials had \u2018known contamination\u2019 with unspecified bacteria and \u2018were approved for use to manufacture several finished lots of Children’s and Infant’s Tylenol drug products.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently they\u2019ve been receiving complaints about a moldy, musty, or mildew-like odor, murkiness and complaints of nausea, stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea since 2008. \u201cThe company<\/a> said the smell was caused by a chemical called \u20182,4,6-tribromoanisole (TBA),\u2019 which is applied to wooden pallets that are used to transport and store packaging materials.\u201d Super.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what all this means: (1) throw away all your infant and children\u2019s Motrin, Tylenol, Benadryl and Zyrtec. It’s all been recalled.\u00a0(2) It\u2019s time to hoard generic children\u2019s pain reliever. Buy some while you can because who knows when J&J will get their act together and start manufacturing again. For more info\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

If anyone needs me, I\u2019ll be in my happy place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday our tiny, jail cell of a powder room was painted. It’s navy blue stripes with matte and gloss finishes except for an apple green ceiling and accent wall. It\u2019s awesome. I\u2019ve been snickering to myself, like I have a secret, all week. I have an apple green wall. It\u2019s not a big one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmn-reports","category-parenting","category-popular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}