PediaCare brand DAY & NIGHT Value Pack DAYTIME MULTI-SYMPTOM Cold (dextromethorphan HBr 5 mg and…
Medicine recall D-1353-2014. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Jun 4, 2014.
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Jun 4, 2014. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class III FDA’s class
- Terminated its status, in FDA’s file
- Nationwide FDA’s word for where it went
- 17,479 cases/12 dual packs how much, in FDA’s words
Every line below is in FDA’s own words, with its source beside it. FDA’s terms are explained in FDA’s own words.
How serious is it, by FDA’s class?
Class III, the least serious of FDA’s three classes.
“Products that are unlikely to cause any adverse health reaction, but that violate FDA labeling or manufacturing laws. Examples include: a minor container defect and lack of English labeling in a retail food.”
openFDA, in plain words, its enforcement report fields.
“Class III is a situation in which use of, or exposure to, a violative product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences.”
FDA’s rule, 21 CFR 7.3(m)(3), eCFR.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
Presence of Precipitate; small amounts of diphenhydramine precipitated out of solution
FDA, Drug recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
PediaCare brand DAY & NIGHT Value Pack DAYTIME MULTI-SYMPTOM Cold (dextromethorphan HBr 5 mg and Phenylephrine HCl 2.5 mg) and NIGHTTIME MULTI-SYMPTOM Cold (diphenhydramine HCl 6.25 mg and phenylephrine HCl 2.5 mg), 4 FL oz (118 mL) bottles, one each of DAYTIME MULTI-SYMPTOM Cold, Distributed by Medtech Products, Inc., Tarrytown, NY --- UPC 814832013523
17,479 cases/12 dual packs, in FDA’s words.
FDA, Drug recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
UPC 814832013523 Lots: Expiry Date 148342 07/2015 148347 08/2015 149297 08/2015 149382 07/2015 149516 08/2015 152298 08/2015 73143 04/2014 73719 05/2014 74195 06/2014 74805 06/2014 75180 06/2014 79186 09/2014 79323 09/2014
Copied exactly as FDA lists them: lot and serial numbers, dates and other codes on the product or its label.
Barcodes and drug codes
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UPC
814832013523
As FDA’s description and codes give them; the UPCs written as digits only.
Where did it go?
FDA’s words for the “general area of initial distribution”: where the firm first shipped it.
Nationwide, and one consignee in Libya
These words name no state.
What FDA means by nationwide
“The term “nationwide” is defined to mean the fifty states or a significant portion. Note that subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
openFDA, its enforcement report fields.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
Is it still going on?
Terminated, in FDA’s file.
“FDA has determined that all reasonable efforts have been made to remove or correct the violative product in accordance with the recall strategy, and proper disposition has been made according to the degree of hazard.”
openFDA, on “Terminated”, its enforcement report fields.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
- The firm began the recall on Apr 25, 2014.
- FDA classified it on May 28, 2014.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on Jun 4, 2014.
- FDA terminated it on Sep 15, 2015.
FDA, Drug recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- Prestige Brands Holdings, of Tarrytown, NY.
- Who began it, in FDA’s words: Voluntary: Firm initiated.
- How the firm first told its customers: Letter.
FDA, Drug recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
What this record can’t tell you
- Whether your own one is affected: compare the codes, dates and numbers above with yours. When unsure, ask the firm or the store.
- Where it went after the firm’s first shipments. FDA’s words cover the firm’s initial distribution, and, in FDA’s words, “subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
- How many have been returned, corrected or destroyed: FDA’s report doesn’t say.
- Whether anyone was hurt or fell ill: the report doesn’t say.
- How current it is: openFDA publishes FDA’s Enforcement Report weekly, after FDA does, and a firm can announce a recall weeks before it appears there. openFDA’s own caution: “This data should not be used as a method to collect data to issue alerts to the public, nor should it be used to track the lifecycle of a recall.”
- A product with no recall here isn’t safe by that: FDA’s report lists the recalls FDA classified, and when.
Hearth Record wrote these lines; the quotations are FDA’s.
Sources
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Drug recall enforcement reports.
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