The contaminated drugs murders

The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering . move away from capsules, which were easy to contaminate as a foreign substance could be placed inside without obvious signs of tampering.
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Panamanian officials discovered that the toothpaste had come from China and initiated a global response. Fast action by the Ministry of Health, and notification through the media, prevented poisonings due to this product. In June , counterfeit Colgate toothpaste imported from China was found to be contaminated with DEG, and several people in the eastern US reported experiencing headaches and pain after using the product. Colgate-Palmolive claimed it does not import products from South Africa into the United States or Canada and that DEG is never and was never used in any of its products anywhere in the world.

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These counterfeit products were found in smaller mom and pop stores, dollar stores, and discount stores in at least four states. Pharmaceutical manufacturers used diethylene glycol, which they believed to be glycerine , to make cough syrup.

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Then, two months ago, fatality knocked at its door. A new mixture of a new drug sulfanilamide with a new solvent diethylene glycol , which Dr. A graphic story of a race against death from "elixir sulfanilamide," carried on by the Food and Drug Administration in fifteen States from Virginia to California, a race not won until ninety-three persons had died after taking the lethal dose, was told by Secretary Wallace today in a report responding to Senate and House resolutions.

Archived from the original on The syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, is an indispensable part of the modern world, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in some antifreeze.

Federal drug regulators, in announcing Wednesday that the mystery contaminant in heparin was an inexpensive, unapproved ingredient altered to mimic the real thing, moved closer to concluding that Americans might be the latest victims of lethal Chinese drug counterfeiting. Federal prosecutors say the steroids were mixed in unsanitary conditions with expired ingredients.

Bruce Singal, Cadden's attorney, declined to comment. In court, he has said that Cadden oversaw the company's operations, but didn't work in the facility's "clean rooms" or mix the drugs that harmed people.

What made the outbreak possible?

The outbreak of fungal infections tied to injections with contaminated medicines killed at least 64 people and sickened about more. A report about the public health investigation and response published in The New England Journal of Medicine in , said the outlook for "patients remains uncertain.

Although many case patients have completed antifungal therapy and their conditions are currently stable or improved, relapses of infection are possible. Many people who got sick after the injections are still waiting for compensation checks from a legal settlement with the compounding pharmacy.

Several people who became sick after injections talked about their lives since then. None has testified in the case but some have plans to attend the trial. Here are excerpts from conversations with them. The last injection — the steroid injection that I got in my spine — was for pain in my legs, pain and numbness, due to spinal cord injuries. During the course of the next few days, I felt like I was coming down with the flu I had trouble remembering things. I came down with an incredible headache that didn't go away. I had terrible neck pain, and my eyes were very sensitive to light.

I've gone from being a person who walked two or three miles a few times a day. I used to go out a lot in wilderness areas and did backpacking. And now I only leave the house a couple times a week. I'm always tired and always in pain, I can't think. I get confused easily. I can't read like I used to. Justice needs to be done here.

Tremendous harm was done to a great many people, and that should not be forgotten. Angela Farthing, 46, of Maryland. I had fungal meningitis and was admitted to the hospital. When I was released, I ended up having a stroke and developed a brain aneurysm.

I was readmitted, and I was there for almost another two months. I got very sick.

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I was vomiting all the time, had horrible headaches every day.