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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manufacturing over-the-counter capsules has been a fast-growing, profitable business (1985 sales: $1.5 billion), but the market is suddenly shrinking. Within the past five months, both Bristol-Meyers and Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, have stopped selling any of their nonprescription drugs in capsule form. While most other manufacturers insist that they have no current intention of walking away from this market, consumers and producers across the U.S. are pondering the uncertain fate of the still popular product...
Thousands of different kinds of nonprescription capsules continue to be sold today. In all, Americans bought about 10.5 billion doses of these gelatin-cased medications last year. Among the leading brands: Contac (made by SmithKline Beckman), and Sinutab and Benadryl (both made by Warner-Lambert). Nearly all over-the-counter drugs are two-piece capsules, although the single- piece model, used for some vitamins, is perhaps safer. If anyone were to try ; to pierce a single-piece shell, it would probably leak and be very difficult to seal again. In tampering with two-piece capsules, a criminal might be able...
...major consumer organization is currently pushing for a nationwide ban on % the sale of over-the-counter capsules. Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Washington-based Health Research Group, argues that such a ban "would be a shortsighted solution to a terrorist threat." FDA Commissioner Dr. Frank Young concurs: "You are on a slippery slope when you allow a group of terrorists to start driving products off the market." The FDA, Young says, is not now considering any ban on capsules...
...million to pull out of the capsule market, and Bristol-Meyers will lose $38 million. These days executives are voicing varying degrees of commitment to the controversial capsule. Said a spokesman for American Home Products: "We have no intention at this point in time of discontinuing our over-the-counter capsule business." At another time, he implies, things could change. Echoed a spokesman for Sterling Drug, maker of Panadol and Midol pain relievers: "We are still marketing the capsules. But it's a fluid situation. Any instance, such as the recent tampering cases, causes us to review our products...
Nestled at one end of the Lampoon castle, Starr Bookshop (29 Plympton St.) is the prototypical used bookstore. It has two floors of classical and scholarly books practically falling off the jam-packed shelves, and the man behind the counter knows everything. McIntyre and Moore Booksellers (30 Plympton St.) is another place to find well-used texts and has large medieval history, literary criticism and philosophy sections...