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Tylenol tampering  

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  • One of the most significant examples of business ethics and corporate crisis management involved the actions of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) during the Tylenol tampering crisis. In the fall of 1982, a subsidiary of United States–based J&J, McNeil Consumer Products, learned that seven people in Chicago had died from taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules that had been laced with cyanide. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Tylenol Tampering]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-TRX3G2VS-R

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