Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, July 3, 1993                   TAG: 9307030078
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

RICHMOND - Virginia is among 34 states that reached a settlement with a New Jersey company over tactics used in marketing Triaminic children's cough syrups, Attorney General Stephen D. Rosenthal said Thursday.

Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp. reduced the product to half-strength, doubled the old dosage and continued selling the medicine for the same price. The cough syrup was labeled "new and improved."

Sandoz admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to:

Send consumers who complain a refund or a free bottle of Triaminic.

Drop the "new and improved" claim.

Begin placing a statement on each package saying, "IMPORTANT: Read new chart for correct dosage".

Provide stores with warning stickers to place on older products still in stock.

Disclose future changes in dosage on the front of the product and in all advertising. - Associated Press

IBM blowing horn for its quiet place

BOCA RATON, Fla. - IBM wants a little credit for a room of quiet.

The computer giant has applied to the Guinness Book of Records to get its echoless test chamber, which eliminates 99.99 percent of noise, listed as the quietest place on Earth.

International Business Machines Corp. uses its chamber in Boca Raton for testing computer equipment.

The "dead room" at Bell Telephone System laboratory in Murray Hill, N.J., holds the quietest-room record. It eliminates 99.98 percent of noise.

- Associated Press