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...response to ! the tragedy. Only the day before, Burke had announced that Johnson & Johnson would no longer sell any of its over-the-counter drugs in capsule form. The pharmaceuticals maker saw the move as the best hope of preventing a recurrence of the still unsolved poisoning of Diane Elsroth, 23, of Peekskill, N.Y., who died Feb. 8, after swallowing two Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide. Said Burke at a press conference: "We take this action with great reluctance and a heavy heart. But since we can't control random tampering with capsules after they leave...
...prepared for bed during an overnight stay with her boyfriend's family in Yonkers, N.Y., last week, Diane Elsroth, 23, complained of feeling ill. Her solicitous companion, Michael Notarnicola, also 23, brought her two capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol from what he said was a previously unopened bottle purchased a week earlier by his mother. Twelve hours later, the stenographer, daughter of a New York State trooper, was found dead of what was later diagnosed as acute cyanide poisoning. Her death touched off a new scare, reminiscent of the still unsolved Tylenol panic of 1982, in which seven people...
Concern widened five days after Elsroth's death, when five more cyanide capsules were found in a Tylenol bottle taken from a Woolworth store just two blocks from the Bronxville A & P. The second group of contaminated capsules contained the same chemical "fingerprint" as was found in the bottle opened for Elsroth. And as with that deadly container, the tamper-resistant seals on the second bottle appeared untouched. Some of the capsules inside, however, had been opened and reclosed. This bottle, from a different lot, had been filled at a McNeil plant in Puerto Rico...
...think it's just one of those [people] trying to extrot money and trying to get publicity," said Bronxville Police Chief Carl Steinmuller. He said he did not think the man had any hand in the poisoning death of Diane Elsroth of peekskill...
...Elsroth died after taking two capsules Saturday from a bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol purchased at an A&P supermarket in Bronxville. Authorities say they believe those capsules contained potassium cyanide; three other poisoned capsules were found in the bottle...
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