The Nation - News from May 2, 1989

A bottle of Listerine mouthwash that an Arkansas woman claimed had burned her mouth was not contaminated, indicating the woman simply may have been unfamiliar with the antiseptic product’s strong taste, the manufacturer said. “There was nothing in there but 100% Listerine,” Warner-Lambert spokesman Barry S. Cohen said in Morris Plains, N.J., after tests on the suspect bottle and other bottles were completed. The woman who returned the Listerine to the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. outlet in Rogers, Ark., said the mouthwash “had caused a burning irritation in her mouth,” Wal-Mart spokesman Don Shinkle said.