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Federal agents apprehended a major fugitive last week in connection with the Tylenol-tampering case that claimed seven lives in the Chicago area in September and October, but seemed no closer to finding the actual killer or killers...
...grateful for being recognized as one of the leading manufacturers of equipment that provides tamper-proof seals. However, in your story "Tylenol Legacy" [Nov. 1], you reported that Pillar Corp.'s 1981 sales were $2 million. The figure should have been $20 million...
...three weeks, the police have been searching for Chicago Con Man James Lewis, also known as Robert Richardson, who is accused of trying to extort $ 1 million from the makers of Tylenol in the wake of the killings. The Chicago Tribune received a letter, postmarked from New York City last Wednesday, that apparently came from the fugitive. "My wife and I have not committed the Chicago area Tylenol murders," the author wrote. "We do not go around killing people...
Efforts to protect the public from the Tylenol killer and his imitators are lumbering along. The FDA last week submitted a proposed regulation on tamper-resistant packaging of over-the-counter drugs to the Office of Management and Budget for approval. The regulation would not specify which of many types of packaging the industry should adopt; it would set a standard for the industry to meet in any way that companies might choose. Estimates are that new packaging will cost the industry between $20 million and $30-million a year and will add anything from a penny to a dime...
Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson, the makers of Tylenol, wrote off $50 million (net after taxes) as the expense of recalling all Tylenol capsules. J & J nonetheless resumed advertising of Tylenol, which is currently available only in tablet and liquid forms, and promised to have repackaged capsules back on the market soon...