Criminal history: why in the USA it is difficult to open medicine bottles

In America, if you are sick, have a cold or have a headache, the first thing you do is take a Tylenol tablet (paracetamol). They are in every home medicine cabinet. One “but”: the bottle of pills is difficult to open!

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Who has ever tried to open Tylenol, understands what I'm talking about. I have had occasions when I did not take a pill, because I could not open a can!

But it was not always so! 37 years ago it opened easily. It was possible, right in the store, to take the medicine from the shelf, take a pill out and take it. And, if you did not want to buy the whole package (maybe you have a car and a little Tylenol truck at home), quietly put it back on the shelf. ⠀

It was a big mistake of the pharmaceutical companies!

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In 1982 in the suburbs of Chicago, someone in the store has put cyanic potassium in jars of Tylenol right in the store. Seven people died taking pills.

America was in shock. The unknown was especially frightening - no one knew the motive for the crime, who committed it and for what purpose.

People refused to take any medication. Pharmaceutical companies urgently took drugs from the shelves.

Johnson & Johnson recalled $ 100 million pills. It was a lot of money 37 years ago. ⠀

An investigation began, the best minds were involved - no one was found, and they are still looking. New technologies appear (for example, DNA), they are used - but still no trace of the criminal. Or criminals...

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At the same time, Congress and the FDA decided on how to pack tablets that are sold without prescriptions and are on the counter. So:

• they must be in a sealed cardboard box;
• the lid from the can can be removed only by turning it into a special position;
• the neck of the jar is tightened with a protective film. ⠀

Since then, consumers have had only one problem with the tablets: they are sometimes impossible to open.

And detectives are still keeping this case in control, looking for a criminal and remind us: be vigilant! If something seems strange and suspicious to you, most likely it is! ⠀ ⠀ ⠀

The original blog is posted on the blog leader on the USA. alena_america.

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