Tylenol Scare Case Studies

The Tylenol scare was one of the biggest epidemics in the early 1980s and in over the counter drug selling and handling. The tragedy started off in Chicago where a young twelve year old girl of the name Mary Kellerman would have a sore throat and a runny nose. In this incident, her parents went to their local drug store to get some extra strong Tylenol for their daughter cold. Little did they know that the over the counter drug was laced with cyanide and the young girl was pronounced later on that day; this cause a great scare across our nation. Adam Janus was a postal worker in Chicago who also killed by the laced drug. He was thought to have died by a heart attack but was figured out that the heart attack wasn't the case. Adam’s relatives Stanley and Theresa both had taken the Tylenol and were soon to murder by the laced drug. Each one of the individuals died young. Over a few days Mary McFarland, Paula Prince, and Mary Wiener all died of the same cause. Making Johnson and Johnson Tylenol consumers terrified of the product and extreme investigation of the product occurred. Later on that year, investigators figured out that the Tylenol products were the real cause of the death but the where indeed laced. This caused the crime to be shown as an act of terrorism in our country. I feel as if Johnson and Johnson did the best the …show more content…
I feel as if Johnson and Johnson did a great job recovering their market but for people like myself I still wouldn't trust them after the whole incident. Their was not one convicted of the felony for tampering with the tablets. Now going forward in those times I would have felt safer if the Johnson and Johnson had at least a seal of approval that the items had nothing wrong with on top of having the tramper-proof seal. Once the make that change as well I would than announce to the public through advertisement of our new