Record #:

31685

Author(s):

Baskin, Yvonne

Abstract:

Last fall, a two-year old North Carolina boy died from accidentally eating seed peanuts, which are treated with a very toxic organic phosphate insecticide called Thimet. According to Dr. Shirley Osterhout of the Duke Poison Control Center, more than half of the state’s poisoning cases involved children under four years of age. This article discusses recent cases handled at the center, sources of poison and hazardous waste, and prevention of poisonings.

Source:

Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 5 Issue 5, May 1973, p6-7, por

Subject(s):

Death--Causes; Poisonous plants; Hazardous wastes