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1982 Tylenol Scare 1st reported...
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1982 Tylenol Scare 1st reported...

Item # 730710 ·

USA TODAY Oct. 1, 1982

  • Chicago Tylenol murders
  • Capsules w/ potassium Cyanide
  • First made public on the poisoning

The front page has the headline: "Tylenol: Poison pills kill 5; nationwide alert" with related illustration. (see images) 
Complete with all 4 sections (40 pages), very nice condition.

Background: The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders represent a extraordinarily rare and unprecedented watershed moment in modern public health, law enforcement, and corporate crisis response, standing as one of the earliest high-profile acts of domestic consumer terrorism in American history. What makes the content of this scare so notable is not only the horrifying nature of the crime—where an unknown perpetrator selectively opened Extra-Strength Tylenol bottles on retail shelves, replaced harmless powder with lethal doses of potassium cyanide, and placed them back for unsuspecting buyers—but also the catastrophic speed at which seven lives were claimed within a single metropolitan area over a few days. Historically, the incident is exceptionally rare because product tampering of this scale had never been executed on the American public, creating a nationwide panic that temporarily crippled the nation's best-selling over-the-counter pain reliever and completely revolutionized consumer safety standards forever. The unprecedented corporate decision by Johnson & Johnson to immediately execute a full national recall of over 31 million bottles—valued at over $100 million at the time—along with the subsequent federal enactment of the Federal Anti-Tampering Act of 1983, directly established the triple-seal tamper-evident packaging standards, modern foil seals, and safety caps that remain mandatory across the global pharmaceutical and food packaging industries today.

Category: The 20th Century
Price
$48
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.