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(MedPage Today) -- McNeil Consumer Healthcare has announced it is lowering the maximum daily dose instructions for Extra Strength Tylenol to six pills a day (3,000 mg) to reduce the risk of acetaminophen overdose.

The drug company McNeil has voluntarily recalled 60,000 bottles of Tylenol Extra Strength Caplets, due to a "musty, moldy" odor.

FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) -- Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday announced another Tylenol recall due to a musty moldy odor linked to a trace chemical....

Parents perplexed about how much Tylenol to give their babies may get some help because the feds are considering dose information for kids under age 2.

Johnson & Johnson said it was recalling more than 700,000 bottles or packages of Tylenol and other consumer medicines made at a now-closed plant, the latest in a litany of recalls by the company.

Health care products maker Johnson & Johnson recalled another lot of Tylenol due to a musty odor which has already triggered five other recalls of the company's over-the-counter medicines.

Johnson & Johnson faulted lax cleaning procedures and other problems at a manufacturing plant behind massive recalls of medicines like Tylenol, and said it was recalling nearly 50 million more bottles.

The recall of Tylenol and other over-the-counter medicines has grown once again, with Tylenol maker McNeil PCC Inc. today announcing the recall of 21 lots of medicines as a precautionary measure.

U.S. health regulators are investigating hundreds of reported complications with dozens of recalled children's medications made by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N), including 30 deaths, but so far no direct link has been found, according to a congressional report.

Deficient manufacturing practices at the plant involved in the recent recall of infant and children's Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec, and Benadryl products may be responsible for bacterial contamination of raw materials in the recalled products, according to a new report issued by the FDA.