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Tylenol Arthritis Recall 2009 Caused by 2,4,6-Tribromoanisole; Do You Know What That Is?
What is Paecilomyces Variotii and What Does it Have to Do with the Tylenol Recall?
1 X (GNU) 'A tidy stack of pallets somewhere on University of Michigan Campus in the winter months.' Tylenol Arthritis Recall 2009 Caused by 2,4,6-Tribromoanisole; Do You Know What That Is? What is Paecilomyces variotii and what does it have to do with the Tylenol recall?
Credit: Carol | © Wikimedia Commons At the core of the Tylenol Arthritis Recall 2009 is a musty odor caused by 2,4,6-tribromoanisole. What is more concerning is what led to the formation of the chemical to begin with.
Tylenol Arthritis Recall
The FDA announces that McNeil Consumer Healthcare is expanding its Tylenol Arthritis recall to include all Tylenol Arthritis Pain Caplet 100 count bottles that come with the easy to recognize red "EZ-Open" cap. Previously,
Tylenol Arthritis Recall 2009 Caused by 2,4,6-Tribromoanisole; Do You Know What That Is? only five batches of this painkiller were subject of the recall, but now the company has chosen to include all batches of this product.
You Have A Bottle Implicated in the Tylenol Recall in Your Medicine Cabinet: Now What?
Stop using the Tylenol product immediately. Consumers may inquire about refunds and credits by using the company's online email contact - referencing the Tylenol Arthritis recall 2009 - or calling 1-888-222-6036 from eight in the morning to eight at night (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday, and nine to five on the weekends.
2,4,6-Tribromoanisole: Behind the Tylenol Recall
McNeil Consumer Healthcare reveals that an uncharacteristic musty smell led to the initial -- and now expanded - product recall. Reports of nausea, vomiting, stomach pains and diarrhea were eventually traced back to 2,4,6-tribromoanisole, a metabolite of a chemical fungicide associated with the treatment of wood used in pallets. These pallets, in turn, were used to transport the packaging materials that would later be used for bottling the Tylenol caplets.
According to the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2,4,6-tribromoanisole is high on the list of probable mustiness causing agents that taint packaged foods. It is interesting to note that an interaction of the fungus Paecilomyces variotii with the fungicide 2,4,6-tribromophenol leads to the creation of 2,4,6-tribromoanisole. McNeil Consumer Healthcare advises that all the complaints it received pointed to a short-lived discomfort but acknowledges that the effects of this metabolite on the human organism have not been fully studied.
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