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...woman from Westchester County, N.Y., died of cyanide poisoning after taking an Extra-Strength Tylenol capsule. In 1982 seven people died from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules, but it was the most recent death that persuaded Johnson & Johnson to stop making capsules altogether and to reissue the remedy in a tamper-resistant "caplet" form. Whether SmithKline will also abandon capsules was not clear. Unlike Tylenol, the SmithKline products are "time-release" medicines, which break down slowly and work best in capsule form. Besides, Contac accounts for some $50 million in SmithKline's sales, half of its over-the-counter drug business...
...stamped two separate economic outlines that bear the Gorbachev seal. Both emphasize the rebuilding of obsolete factories and concentration on machine-tool production, consumer goods and computer technology. But Gorbachev's defense of the centrally planned Soviet economy indicated that, unlike China's leaders, he is not prepared to tamper with the foundations of Marxist-Leninist theory...
...greater safety, several companies have devised methods of sealing the individual capsules to make them tamper resistant. Eli Lilly has developed a tiny belt of gelatin that binds, like a piece of tape, the top and bottom halves and makes it difficult to open a capsule without tearing it. Sterling Drug uses sound waves to create a kind of spot-weld on capsules of its Panadol pain reliever. Johnson & Johnson says that it too studied new methods of sealing capsules but decided that none was completely secure...
Since the poisoned painkiller had been enclosed within Tylenol's three tamper-resistant seals, investigators turned their attention to the plant in Fort Washington, Pa., where they were manufactured by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, McNeil Consumer Products. The poison, with a different chemical makeup from the cyanide involved in the 1982 killings, differed as well from the cyanide stored at the plant for testing. The company also began a review of its storage and distribution facilities and personnel files of about 30,000 U.S. employees...
...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...