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* In 1990, an employee at the Point Lepreau nuclear plant in New Brunswick with tritiated water/ Apparently he was trying to play a practical joke, by forcing people to give daily urine samples for an extended period. The joke didn't go over too well.
* In [[World War II]], food shortages in Germany meant that food waste was universally recycled as pigswill, including the leftovers from POW camps holding allied prisoners of war. Naturally as soon as the inmates at [[The Alcatraz|Colditz Castle]] discovered this they took to liberally seasoning their table scraps with shards of [[Razor Apples|broken razor blades]] despite the German authorities loudly threatening death to anyone they caught in the act.
* The modus operandi of [[Black Widow]] and [[Serial Killer]] [http://kimcantrell.hubpages.com/hub/anjette-donovan-lyles Anjette] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030191521/http://www.law.uga.edu/dwilkes_more/his20_most.html Lyles]. She killed two husbands, a mother-in-law, and her eldest child via first giving them food with high doses of arsenic-based poison, then slipping them more poison while taking care of them.
* Antifreeze is one of the most commonly used chemicals to poison people. Not only is it easy to obtain, it has a sweet, syrupy flavor (due to the ethylene glycol in it) that doesn't raise suspicion if mixed in with someone's coffee- until they drop dead from heart failure.
** There are two variants of antifreeze, the other based on ''propylene'' glycol, which is almost exactly similar, but non-toxic. It's somewhat more expensive and trickier to use (it oxidizes into mildly corrosive lactic acid on contact with air, and tends to foul up quicker), but can sometimes be ''more frequently'' encountered nowadays, specifically because it's so much safer than ethylene glycol.<ref>You need to drink it by the liter to experience even a mildly adverse symptoms</ref> So the enterprising poisoner might find their plans unexpectedly failing.
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