RE to Jim 3975 - Strong contamination with ethidium bromide

[Nick Theodorakis]

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

I ran into one of the guys in that lab at a meeting a few months after 
the incident, and at that time he had no symptoms.

> 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.
> 

One of the labs I was in once had beer at lab meetings.

Nick

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