Outbreak of methanol poisoning due to sale of black market
vodka results in five deaths.
Chemical weapons used to end hostages siege, >120 deaths.
Outbreak of unknown illness affects 222 children.
Break-up of oil tanker carrying more than 19 million gallons of
fuel pollutes coastlines of two countries.
Outbreak of unknown illness among school children.
Sale of oysters and shellfish banned over fears of contamination
with toxic fuel oil spilled from a sunken tanker.
Discovery of ricin in a house associated with suspected terrorists.
Six arrested.
Oil sludge from a sunken tanker washing up onto a tourist beach.
Traces of ricin discovered in a luggage locker at a railway station.
Unknown illness affecting 101 children in Kazakhstan.
Public warning that black-market rum containing ethylene glycol
emanating from Estonia had caused fatal poisoning in Finland.
Contamination of imported buckwheat grain and flour with seeds
of the poisonous plant, Datura stramonium. 60 ill; products
withdrawn.
Thiamine-deficient, soy-based infant formula associated with
a cluster of cases of encephalopathy. Product withdrawn.
Deliberate contamination of mineral water and other drinks with
chemicals.