Johnson & Johnson hires outside quality consultants after drug recall

Johnson & Johnson hired “independent quality experts” to help evaluate its quality control and manufacturing processes after it recalled some children’s medicines and suspended operations at the plant that produced the drugs, Chief Executive Officer Bill Weldon said today. “The recent recalls of some over-the-counter medicines from our McNeil Consumer Healthcare operating company are a matter of great concern,” Weldon wrote in a letter posted today at the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based company’s blog, jnjbtw.com. “They are a disappointment to me, and to the employees of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies.”