J&J

Tamika wrote:

After reading the article, especially the excerpt about J&J secretly buying up a specific lot of their products to prevent issuing a recall, I wonder if the company will ever be able to regain it's image and trust with consumers at all. I mean we are talking about infant and children medicines and possible metal and wood chips in Tums?! It would seem to me that this has alot to do with negligence of the employees in the plants. What could the major corporation do, aside from personally watching over the assembly lines, to assure that their products are being manufactured properly?

To which I added:

Tamika - good comments! I'll give you a point for them, and you can earn one more for this article.

What is behind this kind of lapse in quality control?? Can we make a list of general contributors?

Is it from lack of testing procedures?

Fudging of results?

What are some other current examples?

How general is it?

How to prevent it?

Can it be prevented?

Can it be predicted?

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OWL

My thoughts on Johnson & Johnson

I think if I had to pick one word to describe Johnson & Johnson's current problems it would be terrifying.  J&J obviously has many issues with quality control that are just coming to light now. We, as consumers, trust a brand name like J&J and assume that when we pay for that brand we are getting quality. When, in reality, we have no way of knowing what is going into the things that we consume regularly (wood chips, metal, cyanide?!)... and that's scary.  J&J has been sacrificing quality and quality control practices to save money. My son's Tylenol infant drops were affected by the recall. It was really upsetting to think that I had been giving him this medication to help him, when in fact it could have been hurting him. Its very unsettling to think about something like this, because there is so much that is unknown about where your food and medications come from. Hopefully, now J&J and other corporations, can learn from this and realize that by skimping on quality control, they are hurting themselves too.

-Alison Zawinski