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From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Tylenol
Message-ID: <1368@ihuxn.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 13:13:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 12 13:13:49 1986
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> One letter to the editor in a paper here had a theory which
> I find compelling if a bit paranoid (the best theories always
> are!)
> 
> It seems pretty difficult to contaminate capsules, then make
> the packaging look untampered with.  So the suspect may have
> had some extra ability or resources.  The suggestion was that
> another drug company may have done the tampering, in order
> to damage Johnson and Johnson.

All the investigators, and J&J, seem to have ruled out (or are
carefully not mentioning) the possibility of employee sabotage.
The prevailing theory is that some person tampered with the
tamper-proof packaging at or near the stores since the tainted
bottles came from different lots.  As I understand it, though,
they're *all* made at the same factory (in Puerto Rico) where
it would be a lot easier for some paranoid malcontent to modify
the contents before they're sealed.  Why couldn't this have
happened?  The reported line is simply that it didn't, or it
was ruled out.  Anyone know why?
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