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Instead of issuing a recall, after Johnson and Johnson discovered its Motrin caplets were defective, they hired a contractor to go around the country buy up all the drugs. It was a "secret recall" that left the bad medicine on shelves for months for consumers to buy. Now the Oregon AG is suing J&J. The story broke when one of the guys hired to do the buying faxed regulators the instructions J&J gave him.

They said:

...he was assigned to go into local stores, look for certain batch numbers, and buy the offending packets with a credit card provided by his employer...

[His instructions said]: "You should simply 'act' like a regular customer when making these purchases. THERE MUST BE NO MENTION OF THIS BEING A RECALL OF THIS PRODUCT! "

Walther said he brushed aside questions from store clerks who quizzed him about the volume of his purchases.

Oregon sues Johnson & Johnson for leaving flawed Motrin on store shelves [The Oregonian] (Thanks to Brandi!)