No Link Found in Tylenol Poisonings in N.Y., Tennessee
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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that there is no apparent connection between the poisoning deaths of a woman in New York and a man in Tennessee because the Tylenol capsules they consumed contained different types of cyanide.
FDA Commissioner Frank E. Young told a Senate hearing that his agency’s laboratory in Cincinnati had identified the poison that killed Timothy R. Green, 32, whose body was found Sunday in Nashville, as sodium cyanide.
He said that is different from the potassium cyanide found in the Tylenol Extra-Strength capsules that caused Diane Elsroth’s death in Yonkers, N.Y., on Feb. 8.
Meanwhile Friday, Nashville police reported that Green had purchased sodium cyanide himself five days before his body was found. “We found he bought one pound of sodium cyanide on Feb. 18 from a local distributor,” police Intelligence Sgt. Dave Roberts said.
But investigators still have not determined whether Green’s death was an accident, murder or suicide.
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