A lot of image sold building Johnson and Johnson to do to the warm and fluffy image of a family business recover, the band and tools and other high-quality products. Since early 2010, the company has recalled more than 50 products.

Most of the products that were recalled have read medicine cabinet like a who's who list of a person. Aspirin had made ill zurückgerufen certain many of the drugs for nasty smells, people products such as Tylenol and St. Joseph. Benadryl and zyrtec were recalled for problems with the ingredients. Certain many Rolaids were also reminds to find bits of wood and metal in the product as a result of people.

It has a cascade of medical device and pharmaceutical in recalls the last 15 months including hernia, contact lenses, syringes filled with prescription drugs and other products. The latest debacle system is part of the recall of DePuy hip replacement. Johnson and Johnson's DePuy, daughter produced faulty medical device. In addition to the recall of DePuy hip Johnson and Johnson has 50 other products recalled since January 2010, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Analysts have not seen so many callbacks in such a short time not even of health giants such as Pfizer and Procter & gamble.

The company might put profit before patients? Back in the early 1990s, Johnson and Johnson profit margin was 17.7%, but it has grown to 26.8% according to the Bloomberg article.

The hip systems that do not work

The most prominent recall currently the voluntary recall of two J & J ASR replacement plastic is systems. World's 93,000 patients received these implants with 37,000 of those residing in the U.S. patients after patients of dislocations, infections, fractures and excess heavy metals in their bloodstream complained.

Johnson and Johnson admits that had 5 years 13 percent of the ASR XL to be replaced hips, because she did not have, and 12 percent their ASR hip of resurfacing systems not having. However, the British hip society and Orthopaedic Association has pointed out, that the hip failure rate is implanted may be up to 49% in less than 4 years after the medical device according to the Bloomberg article.

Problems for Johnson and Johnson

It was already 2007, who knew Johnson and Johnson said about problems with these systems replacement. Even when receiving details of unusually high failure rates, they continue to the product market and no callback until 3 years later issue. This is at the end of that billions of dollars will cost companies.

Since the middle of last year, the company is quality has on revisions issued 3 plants, and observed the FDA about them for the next 5 years. If there are more questions, fines of up to $10 million per year could face.

The CEO of Johnson and Johnson, William Weldon, has tried to distance the company from its subsidiary McNeil healthcare. McNeil is Johnson Johnson consumer healthcare unit. Unfortunately, rings manufactured this argument hollow, because many of the products recalled in the past 15 months, Johnson and Johnson and other subsidiaries.

Ruined a brand

Weldon has no responsibility for the replacement plastic problem for the Johnson and Johnson denied, and continue to argue that the responsibility lies completely with the daughter of DePuy. J & J websites the voluntary recall as a sign of the commitment of the company for his patients. Long gone are the days of the production only first aid products. Johnson and Johnson has more than 250 companies in 60 countries, now $61.6 billion generate revenue in the year 2010.

In the quest to understand how a company with such a long history so scored from the railway it is hard not to look at the financial motivation behind many of his decisions. The company's McNeil subsidiary had to remember 2009 8 million bottles of children's and infant's footwear tylenol for prevention of possible contamination of ingredients. This is when this unity of Johnson and Johnson really started signs of trouble. Two months later, had to 6.3 million bottles of Tylenol Arthritis Pain caplets remind the company to consumers about moldy smell and effects such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

Other products included in the callback when the callbacks million bottles, Motrin, Benadryl, Rolaids and St. Joseph aspirin have been added. It turns out, Johnson and Johnson had known for more than a year on the bad smell and had refused to do something about it. The callbacks escalates and Johnson and Johnson stepped forward and indicating that it is to update your instruments and equipment to spend $ 100 million.

Avoid FDA approvals

The ASR XL hip replacement system was originally published in the US market in 2005 with virtually no clinical studies. It is already approved for sale outside the United States, so that a grandfathering clause uses the product in the United States offer the company

In 2007, the FDA received 87 negative reports about the ASR resurfacing device on 239 reports in 2008 and 426 unfavourable reports in 2009 increased. This trend was doctors with their hip systems until the company was sued for payment. DePuy free from $ 84.7 million Kickback charges to pay.

The future

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