If you lived through the early '80s, you have memories of the horror of murders from
Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. The news sent McNeil Consumer
Products, the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that manufactures Tylenol, the country’s top-selling pain reliever "into a tailspin from which many predicted it
could not recover," per the
Chicago Tribune. "The fact that it did has become the subject of numerous books and college lectures, held up as a shining example of corporate ethics and crisis
management.
The safety seals the company introduced after the killings are found on all manner of over-the-counter medications and food products today, making tamper-evident packaging one
of the horrific crime’s most enduring legacies."
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