The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled over a half a million units of Vicks DayQuil cold medicine because the packaging was found not to be child proof.
The 700,000 units were sold between September 2008 and December 2009 as Vicks DayQuil Cold & Flu 24-Count Bonus Pack Liquicaps. The packaging is marketed as child-resistant but the blister packs inside are not.
The UPC for this product is 3 23900 01087 1.
If a child was to open the medicine and ingest several of the pills they could suffer from serious health problems and death. Thankfully there have yet to be any reports of a child swallowing the medication.
This latest recall comes at not the most opportune time for Vicks and its parent company Proctor & Gamble. The company has already had 120,000 bottles of Vicks Sinex nasal spray recalled after bacteria were found in the spray. The Food & Drug Administration has also sent Vicks a letter warning them about the marketing of their products with Vitamin C.
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