Pain-killer sales stopped
NZPA-AP New York The sale of the painkiller, Tylenol, in capsules was being halted in the United States and 14 other countries where they were on sale, the maker said yesterday. Cyanide in Tylenol capsules bought in Bronxville, a New York City suburb, killed a woman at Yonkers on February 8. Another bottle with cyanide-poisoned capsules was found five days later in another Bronxville store. In 1982 poisoned Tylenol capsules killed seven people in Illinois.
James Burke, chairman of the Johnson and Johnson pharmaceutical company, said on Tuesday that his company was halting the production of all non-prescription drugs in capsule form and instead would urge consumers to use “caplets,” solid pills pressed into capsule shape. Mr Burke said that after the deaths in 1982 the company had chosen to triple-seal capsule bottles, await a way to seal the capsules themselves, and urge a gradual move to caplets.
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