Product Substitution For Excedrin Announced
CPSC recall 77059. Recall date: . Last publish date of the CPSC notice: .
Hazard, in the words of CPSC
Poisoning
CPSC recall 77059 has the recall date 7 Jun 1977. The notice names the firm Excedrin. The CPSC record gives no number of units. This register puts the recall under the hazard Poisoning. CPSC gives the product type Medication.
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| Description | Product Substitution For Excedrin Announced NEWS from CPSC U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 1977 Release # 77-059 Product Substitution For Excedrin Announced WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 7) -- Bristol Myers Products, a division of Bristol Myers Company, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today a product substitution of the company's 225 tablet package size and 375 tablet size of Excedrin analgesic tablets which were distributed nationwide prior to April 1977. CPSC testing found same packages for this product failed to comply with Federal regulations requiring that the packages be child-resistant. The product substitution covers warehouse inventories of those major wholesale and retail customers handling approximately 81% of the merchandise. Existing inventories of these packages are being retrieved and replaced by upgraded packages which were tested by Bristol Myers to assure CPSC compliance. The product substitution will involve approximately 150,000 packages and will be completed by the middle of June. These two sizes represent less than 3% of Excedrin analgesic… |
| Product | Bristol Myers Excedrin, Medication |
| Manufacturer | Excedrin |
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The recall in context
- Units in this recall
- not givenMedian of 1977: not given
- CPSC recalls of 1977
- 36
- Recalls of 1977 with one of the same hazards
- 3%
- Recalls of 1977 in the category Medication
- 3%
- Recalls on the register that name Excedrin
- 1
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Recall Register. CPSC recall 77059. https://recallregister.com/product/3895-product-substitution-for-excedrin-announced/. Source: CPSC Recall Retrieval Web Services. Data through .
Sources
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- US Consumer Product Safety Commission
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- Data retrieved
- 30 Sep 2026
- Newest CPSC recall on the register
- 24 Sep 2026
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Questions
- Does CPSC recall 77059 report injuries?
- The CPSC record of recall 77059 has no incident or injury text.