Poor Tylenol
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Who here is old enough to remember the guy that was poisoning Tylenol capsules with cyanide back in 1982?
It lead to the largest ever product recall and a revolution in food and drug packaging, introducing the words ‘tamper-proof packaging’ to the public lexicon.
Fast forward 43 years and now a different crazy person is tampering with the brand.
I remembered the 82 case enough that I “knew” to check JNJ stock, only to discover that they had spun off Tylenol and all their OTC products into a separate company just a couple of years ago.
By the way, I looked up what happened to the 82 case. They caught the guy who was trying to extort $1MM from JNJ but could never gather enough evidence to link him to the murders. He did serve 12 years for extortion and died in 2023 at age 76. The murder cases remain officially unsolved.
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Who here is old enough to remember the guy that was poisoning Tylenol capsules with cyanide back in 1982?
It lead to the largest ever product recall and a revolution in food and drug packaging, introducing the words ‘tamper-proof packaging’ to the public lexicon.
Fast forward 43 years and now a different crazy person is tampering with the brand.
I remembered the 82 case enough that I “knew” to check JNJ stock, only to discover that they had spun off Tylenol and all their OTC products into a separate company just a couple of years ago.
By the way, I looked up what happened to the 82 case. They caught the guy who was trying to extort $1MM from JNJ but could never gather enough evidence to link him to the murders. He did serve 12 years for extortion and died in 2023 at age 76. The murder cases remain officially unsolved.
@jon-nyc said in Poor Tylenol:
Who here is old enough to remember the guy that was poisoning Tylenol capsules with cyanide back in 1982?
It lead to the largest ever product recall and a revolution in food and drug packaging, introducing the words ‘tamper-proof packaging’ to the public lexicon.
Fast forward 43 years and now a different crazy person is tampering with the brand.
I remembered the 82 case enough that I “knew” to check JNJ stock, only to discover that they had spun off Tylenol and all their OTC products into a separate company just a couple of years ago.
By the way, I looked up what happened to the 82 case. They caught the guy who was trying to extort $1MM from JNJ but could never gather enough evidence to link him to the murders. He did serve 12 years for extortion and died in 2023 at age 76. The murder cases remain officially unsolved.
Want to know the funny part? All the crunchy moms are saying “Damn. Big Pharma got to RFK” right now. They are thinking he caved and they are using Tylenol to protect their cash cow of vaccines… I tried explaining that Tylenol is worth a helluva lot more than all of the vaccines combined. That didn’t go anywhere.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/10/28/paxton-tylenol-autism/
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Tylenol-maker Kenvue and its former parent company, Johnson & Johnson, alleging the companies deceptively sold the painkiller despite knowing it could cause autism.
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https://apnews.com/article/kimberly-clark-kenvue-tylenol-98d5fd39c12b25524e3188da2e840436
Kimberly-Clark is buying Tylenol maker Kenvue in a cash and stock deal worth about $48.7 billion, creating a massive consumer health goods company.
Shareholders of Kimberly-Clark will own about 54% of the combined company. Kenvue shareholders will own about 46% in what is one of the largest corporate takeovers this year. The deal must still be approved by the shareholders of both companies.
The combined company will have a huge stable of household brands under one roof, putting Kenvue’s Listerine mouthwash and Band-Aid side-by-side with Kimberly-Clark’s Cottonelle toilet paper, Huggies and Kleenex tissues. It will also generate about $32 billion in annual revenue.
