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Week of Oct. 18, 1982
Americans by the millions toss out their Tylenol when seven Chicago-area residents die after taking cyanide-laced capsules. With investigators stumped, the Food and Drug Administration works feverishly to come up with new rules requiring tamperproof drug packaging.