Psst! Got any Motrin?

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Johnson & Johnson - Brief article

If you remember Johnson & Johnson's prompt and public recall of Tylenol when a handful of bottles were found to have been poisoned, you will weep at what the firm is reported to have done when it recently learned that defective Motrin was being sold. Instead of informing the FDA and announcing a public recall, it hired contractors to try to quietly buy up the product in stores around the country, even...