Dollar General $1.8 Million Infants’ Pain Drug Settlement OK’d

A $1.8 million settlement resolving allegations that Dollar General Corp. duped consumers into thinking infants couldn’t safely use cheaper “children’s” pain relief products won final approval from a Florida federal court.

Previously, infants’ acetaminophen pain relievers had a stronger concentration of the drug than the children’s products. The difference in concentrations caused some consumers to accidentally provide the wrong dosage to their children.

In December 2011, the Food and Drug Administration said the concentration in both formulas must be the same, to prevent confusion and accidental acetaminophen toxicity.

Dollar General, which distributes its own brand of acetaminophen pain reliever and ...