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J&J announced that Richard B. Sellars would step down as CEO as of November 1, 1976, and be replaced by Burke. [23] As CEO, Burke is credited for the growth of Johnson & Johnson to its current size and prominence, but he is perhaps best known for his crisis management in 1982, when it was found that Tylenol capsules had been poisoned with ...
The vaccine candidate is expected to enter phase 1 human clinical study in September 2020. [94] [97] [98] Demand for the product Tylenol surged two to four times normal levels in March 2020. In response, the company increased production globally. For example, the Tylenol plant in Puerto Rico ran 24 hours a day, seven days a week. [99]
Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders. [1] The study of crisis management originated with large-scale industrial and environmental disasters in the 1980s.
Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide that were sold in the Chicago suburbs were linked to the deaths of seven people in 1982, leading to a nationwide panic. Tylenol murders: New Efforts to Solve ...
The crisis cost the company more than US$100 million, but Tylenol regained 100% of the market share it had before the crisis. 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]
On September 28, 1982, 12-year-old Mary Kellerman was hospitalized after consuming a capsule of Extra Strength Tylenol; she died the next day. [1] [2] On September 29, six other individuals consumed contaminated Tylenol, [1] including Adam Janus (27), Stanley Janus (25), and Theresa Janus (20), who each took Tylenol from a single bottle.
Canada, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Guam, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kuwait, Puerto Rico, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States were affected by the recall. [1] It includes all non-expired packages produced in the United States – more than 100,000 bottles of medicine in total.
[1] Paracetamol poisoning was first described in the 1960s. [6] Rates of poisoning vary significantly between regions of the world. [8] In the United States more than 100,000 cases occur a year. [1] In the United Kingdom it is the medication responsible for the greatest number of overdoses. [7] Young children are most commonly affected. [1]