IF SEAL IS BROKEN, DO NOT USE.

Tamper-evident packaging, including security rings, shrink wrap, blister packs, and others, gained dominance after the “drug tampering scourge” of the early 1980s, including the famous Chicago Tylenol murders of 1982.

It is now required by law in North America on over-the-counter medications.

The packaging is an example and a reminder of human ingenuity both in helping and harming each other, and a reminder of the trust and mistrust held in tension in our systems of interdependence.