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...Girl Scout cookies, the FDA concluded that whatever contamination might have occurred was not related to the manufacturing process. Each plant passes the sealed final product through metal detectors to ensure that no foreign objects have been lodged in the cookies. A federal product-tampering law was enacted after Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide killed seven Chicago-area people in 1982. The maximum penalty for violators is life imprisonment and a fine...
While the Girl Scout cookie incidents have not inspired the type of national scare caused by the Tylenol deaths, several communities have taken precautionary action. The Maine state agriculture department has asked Girl Scout officials to postpone further sales and deliveries of cookies until a warning sheet can be printed and distributed with the packages. In the St. Louis area, where eight cases of tampering have been confirmed, the Girl Scouts have offered refunds on roughly 1.5 million boxes that have already been delivered and sold for $2.6 million. The organization's St. Louis council, the largest...
Says one Wall Street observer: "Johnson & Johnson management were quick to cast themselves in the role of self-sacrificing servants of the people. They generated enormous public sympathy and managed to convince most Tylenol consumers that [the consumers] owed the company cooperation in saving the product." Tylenol's share of the market has climbed back to nearly 29%, despite the fact that other nonaspirin brands, including Anacin-3, Panadol and Datril, are offering stiffer competition than the company faced a year...
...search for the Tylenol killer has been less successful. The Illinois task force, now reduced to ten agents from 150, has checked out 60,000 tips and compiled 25,000 pages of reports. Though the investigators work relentlessly, one of them concedes that the trail is "stone cold, and has been for six months." James W. Lewis, who is accused of trying to extort $ 1 million from Johnson & Johnson by offering to "stop the killing," goes on trial this week. Police have failed to find evidence connecting Lewis directly with the poisonings...
Johnson & Johnson's $100,000 reward still stands, but Illinois agents doubt that anyone will ever collect it. Says Thomas Schumpp of the Illinois department of law enforcement: "With Tylenol there was never a message or a clue to the reason. Not only...