RE to Jim 3975 - Strong contamination with ethidium bromide

[ChenHA]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:06:01 GMT, dk from no.email.thankstospam.net (DK)
wrote:

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>There was a case somewhere on West Coast (Berkely?). Bunch
>of people got poisoned from spiked coffee. There was a note in Science
>about it at some point.

Yes, this is probably the article -

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/278/5344/1704b

Don't know what happened though with the inquiry or if the people
involved suffered any permanent damage. 

Considering how many people have used coffee for poisoning (strong
enough to mask unpleasant taste), perhaps it's best not to drink
coffee in lab meeting.


>DK