Dollar General Shoppers Urge OK for Infant Pain Drug Label Deal

A settlement calling for Dollar General Corp. to pay $1.8 million and change the packaging of its “infant” pain relief products provides meaningful relief to consumers allegedly misled into thinking their children couldn’t safely use the cheaper “children’s” medicine, a plaintiffs’ filing in Florida federal court says.

The discount retailer distributes its own brand of acetaminophen pain reliever and fever reducer under the “DG Health” label.

Although infants’ and children’s medications now contain the same concentration of active ingredient, the infants’ products cost approximately three times more than children’s products for the same amount of medicine, Floridian David Levy alleges ...