What was thing that happened in the 1980s??

Question

it was like in the 1980s.... it was like in 1982 or something with the medicine boxes.... there was like a crisis of opening boxes... what happened and what was it called??

Answer 1

Tylenol scare - 1982

"On September 29, 1982, a "Tylenol scare" began when the first of seven individuals died in metropolitan Chicago, after ingesting Extra Strength Tylenol that had been deliberately contaminated with cyanide. The crime was never solved and Tylenol sales temporarily collapsed, but the brand was rebuilt and recovered in a few years. At the request of later Chairman, Joseph Chiesa, new product consultant Calle & Company rescued the brand with the invention of the first inherently tamper-proof [enrobed] capsule, Tylenol Gelcaps, recapturing the 92% of capsule segment sales lost after the cyanide incident. The scare led to the introduction of tamper-evident packaging and "gelcaps" across the over-the-counter drug (OTC) and prescription drug industry."

Answer 2

Tampered bottles of Tylenol capsules

Answer 3

You might be talking about the Tylenol scare. Some psycho was putting cyanide into bottles of Tylenol on the store shelves. Back then, there were no safety seals or other anti-tampering features on the bottles, so it could be done easily. Never been solved, either, as far as I know. People were scared to take painkillers.