University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 5, 1991
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Drug tampering cases revive old fears
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
Recent cases of over-the-counter drug tampering have prompted a major crackdown.
Because of a recall, area stores are removing packages of Sudafed 12-hour capsules from their shelves.
Lynn Quiring, owner of The Medicine Shoppe, 1807 Massachusetts St. said recent tampering incidents in his shop and tightener many of his customers.
"I've had a lot of calls at the store about that Sufaded mess," he said, "People want to know what they have the medicine in question."
Time-release Sudafed 12-hour capsules tainted with cyanide recently may have killed two people and one child in the city and Olympia areas of Washington.
Burroughs Wellcome Co., the maker of Sudafed, ordered a recall Sunday of about one million packages of the capsules. The company is advising customers to return the product to the store it was bought from if there is any question about the safety of the product.
Quring said that if there was any question about the packaging of a product bought at his store, including an e-reader, he should be returned immediately.
Over-the-counter medications are inspected as the packages are delivered to the store, he said. Any package that looks old or that bears marks of being tampered with is not put on the shelf for purchase.
The store is arranged so that the employees can view the entire store from the counter. Quiring said. There never has been a problem with any
tampering at the store.
"But you have to remember, there are so many products that you can't check them all," he said.
David Barry, Burroughs Wellcome vice president of research and development, agreed that nothing was tamper-proof.
"If you really try hard, you can always tamper with this product (Sudafed) or any product," he said.
John Baughman, chief pharmacist,
at Watkins Medical Health Center,
said the pharmacy did not have to
worry about over-the-counter package tampering
"We don't have anything that could be tampered with accessible to the phishers."
Federal authorities are investigating the two Washington deaths and are trying to determine whether there are any connections between the two that the separate purchases of theainted over-the-counter cold remedy.
In 1982, seven people died after taking cyanide-tainted Tylenol capsules in Chicago, and almost five years ago a cyanide-laced Tylenol capsule killed a New York woman. The killings never have been solved
In 1986, two people in south King County, Wash., died in a cyanide tampering case involving Extra-Strength Excedrin. Stella Nickell and another person held her husband and another person and is serving a 270-year prison sentence.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
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