Tylenol 1982? J&J pulled every bottle off of every shelf from every retailer, imagine what the cost was. Sure management may not be the same today as it was back then, but you dont get to the position they're in by simply looking the other way
It's funny -- That J&J case is taught almost universally in ethics and business courses because it was so clearly the right thing to do, the company did so at great expense, and engendered so much good will.
Then it turns out during the same period they were actively misleading about the problematic nature of their talc. Since then, they've had several other scandals including bribing doctors all over Europe[1], were successfully sued over defective transplants that they knew about[2], shipped a poorly tested and dangerous vaginal mesh that also got them sued[3], among other just awful actions. It's looking more and more like they stumbled onto the correct course with the Tylenol episode and shouldn't be given the benefit of the doubt for anything else.
I just learned about J&J through an XBOX history video. Microsoft said the failing rate was a tylenol moment for the xbox project. And now J&J fails to honor their past. Weird.
Only for people who already have liver failure or who are attempting a suicide by overdose. Acetaminophen is completely safe at normal doses and the liver enzymes have no problem breaking it down at normal doses. It's only when you take the entire package that you run out of liver enzymes for it.
