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Edward Marks, 24, a former stockbroker trainee, admitted in an Orlando court last week that he had spiked Contac, Dietac and Teldrin capsule medicines with rat poison in a bid to make money in the stock market. Marks thus became the first person to plead guilty to charges of orchestrating a national drug- tampering scheme...
...seemed so horrible --so peculiarly horrible--that it was hard to believe it would ever be repeated. And yet it has been, again and again. Last February tainted Tylenol capsules killed a Peekskill, N.Y., woman. A month later traces of rat poison were found in Contac cold capsules and Teldrin allergy medication in Houston and Orlando. Two weeks ago, medical investigators discovered that two residents of Auburn, Wash., had died as a result of swallowing toxic Excedrin capsules. Bristol-Myers quickly pulled Excedrin capsules off the market nationwide, but last week Auburn's cyanide scare spread to yet another brand...
...Lambert, a drug company that is also the world's leading supplier of two-piece capsules, announced that it would use a method of fusing the capsules similar to Lilly's in manufacturing its product line. This summer SmithKline has begun using the gelatin band in its Contac and Teldrin capsules...
...have helped millions of Americans endure the sniffles, but last week every store in the U.S. that carried the popular cold remedy was ordered to get it off the shelves. Manufacturer SmithKline Beckman of Philadelphia was forced to recall Contac and two other fast-selling encapsulated products, the antihistamine Teldrin, for allergies, and Dietac, for appetite control...
...recall, telling retailers only to stop selling the drugs until further notice and warning consumers against using any of the capsules purchased after March 15. At week's end, however, laboratory tests found nonlethal doses of warfarin, an anticoagulant used in rat poison, in two Contac and three Teldrin capsules. SmithKline was frightened into acting. Said Company President Henry Wendt: "Between his claims about cyanide and the findings of warfarin, we feel we didn't have a choice...
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