Johnson & Johnson exec urged Motrin recall

Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare president told employees in an e-mail to proceed with a recall of certain lots of Motrin pills before the formal public recall, Bloomberg says.

In the e-mail, Peter Luther told employees "Let's make this happen ASAP." Bloomberg says it got the e-mail from a source familiar with the investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. A McNeil spokeswoman told Bloomberg the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was kept informed.