Researcher: Consumers Turn on Tylenol

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The Food and Drug Administration’s position on acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, is giving parent company Johnson & Johnson a branding headache, according to researcher YouGov.

The firm, whose BrandIndex polls 5,000 U.S. adults daily on brand perception, found Tylenol’s negative buzz grew in a very short amount of time.

On June 25, the brand’s buzz score-which is rated on a scale of 100 to -100 and calculated by subtracting negative feedback from positive-was 38.9

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