Within days, once it had been established that tainted Tylenol caused the deaths, Burke issued a massive product recall of more than 31 million bottles, and decided not to put the product back on the shelves until new, tamper-resistant packaging could be devised.
With the development of Suboxone Film, the company was able to introduce child resistant, unit-dose packaging with the same active ingredient before it was able to identify and resolve the packaging issues experienced with Suboxone Tablets.