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On 30 October 1858 a batch of sweets poisoned hundreds in Bradford, England. The confectionery had been accidentally adulterated with poisonous arsenic trioxide. About five pounds (two kilograms) of sweets were sold to the public, leading to around 20 deaths and more than 200 people suffering the effects of arsenic poisoning. With increasing urbanisation and the rise in shop-purchased food, adulterants became a growing problem. With the cost of sugar high, replacing it with substitutes was common. For the sweets produced in Bradford, the confectioner was supposed to purchase powdered gypsum, but a mistake at the wholesale chemist meant arsenic was purchased instead. Three men were arrested—the chemist who sold the arsenic, his assistant and the sweet maker—but all three were acquitted after the judge decided that, as it was all accidental, there was no case for any of them to answer. The deaths led to food-adulteration legislation and were a factor in the passage of the Pharmacy Act 1868. (Full article...)
Oxybelis aeneus, commonly known as the Mexican vine snake or the brown vine snake, is a species in the family Colubridae, the colubrid snakes. It is endemic to the Americas, being found from the mountains of southern Arizona in the United States south through Mexico to northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. The species is usually encountered in trees or shrubs on open, steep, and grassy slopes, but is also associated with wooded canyons, especially those with abundant vegetation. Its diet consists mainly of lizards (mostly anoles), but it also eats frogs, small rodents and birds. This O. aeneus snake was photographed by the Gulf of Mexico coast in the El Palmar State Reserve, near Sisal in the Mexican state of Yucatán.Photograph credit: The Cosmonaut
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