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1982 Chicago Tylenol murders: Tylenol pain-relief capsules were laced with potassium cyanide, leading to seven deaths. [5] 2007 Panamanian Eduardo Arias discovered that toothpaste sold in his country was labeled as containing diethylene glycol, the same ingredient that had tainted cough syrup and killed 138 Panamanians in 2006. Panamanian ...
Chicago Tylenol murders (1982) Several people aged 12 - 35 died from a potassium cyanide poisoning after consuming contaminated Tylenol capsules containing paracetamol Capsule (pharmacy) Paracetamol; Charles Francis Hall (d. 1871), American Arctic explorer poisoned with arsenic by members of the Polaris expedition.
Seven people died after taking poisoned Tylenol in 1982, and though no one was ever charged in the killings, packaging for over-the-counter medicine across the industry was revamped.
Editor’s Note: Learn more about the decades-old cold case of the Tylenol murders in the latest episode of “How It Really Happened,” airing Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on CNN. It’s almost ...
In the 2008 footage James Lewis is seen going into detail about how the Tylenol killer would have carried out the poisonings
The mice group treated with an equivalent dose of paracetamol showed a significant decrease of glutathione of 35% (p<0.01 vs untreated control group). The oral LD50 was found to be greater than 2000 mg kg-1, whereas the intraperitoneal LD50 was 1900 mg kg-1. These results taken together with the good hydrolysis and bioavailability data show ...
The Tylenol murderer was never found, (though later James Lewis was a prime suspect [10]) and a US$100,000 reward offered by Johnson & Johnson remained unclaimed as of 2023. [11] [12] [13] Before the poisonings, Tylenol brands held around 35% of the US market for acetaminophen and in the immediate aftermath, fell to 8%.
TYLENOL MURDERS: After a joint FBI task force was unable to pin the 1982 Tylenol murders on prime suspect James Lewis, special agent Roy Lane was coaxed out of retirement to carry out a daring ...