The Nation : Suspicious Capsules OKd

Federal officials said tests showed there was no poison in a suspicious bottle of Panadol capsules found in a community near the New York suburb where a woman died from cyanide-tainted Tylenol. The discovery of Panadol with damaged capsules--apparently due to a manufacturing error--was reported Saturday in Nanuet, N.Y., a suburb near Westchester County, where Diane Elsroth died Feb. 8 of cyanide poisoning after taking two Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. There were no new leads in the death of Elsroth, 23. Food and Drug Administration spokesman Bill Grigg said tests on the Panadol “turned up negative for cyanide.” He said the problem appears to be “a manufacturing error.”