Poison food law
President Ronald Reagan has signed a law which imposes stiff new penalties for people who poison food, medicine or cosmetics — an outcome of last year’s poisoned Tylenol affair. Seven people died in Illinois after consuming capsules of Tylenol, an aspirin-like painkiller, which had been laced with cyanide. The police never discovered who 'was responsible but the publicity appeared to inspire a spate of similar cases of deliberate product poisoning. Under the new law anyone found to have altered products, causing the death of a consumer, will face a life prisonLsentence and a $USi®,OOO ($150,000) fine. — Wasmngton.
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Press, 20 October 1983, Page 21
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