Poisons which cause death

Many hydrocarbon products do not have child-resistant packaging. This increases the risk that children may drink them. Since , CPSC is aware of five fatalities and an estimated 6, emergency room visits involving children under 5 years old who drank hydrocarbons. New packaging requirements allow companies twelve months to change their packaging. Therefore, these products may be in our home without child-resistant packaging. UConn Health. Search University of Connecticut.

A to Z Index. Some examples of hydrocarbon-containing products: This is just a partial list of hydrocarbon products. Cosmetics — Baby, hair and bath oils; sunscreen; nail enamel dryers and makeup removers. Cleaning Products — Cleaners such as: wood oil, metal, adhesive and pine , spot remover and liquid furniture polish. All eight of these accidental deaths involved transfer of paraquat into a beverage container. Several of these cases have occurred recently.

A review of the SENSOR-Pesticides data identified additional ingestion cases, including the fatal case of an 8-year-old child who drank the paraquat out of a soda bottle. See EPA Actions to adopt measures to prevent poisoning and protect workers from paraquat. EPA has warned the applicator community about the high toxicity of paraquat.

See the training module and paraquat training FAQs. It is the responsibility of pesticide applicators to ensure that RUP products are used safely and appropriately, including never transferring any pesticide product, including paraquat, into a beverage container.

Skip to main content. Ricin ingested or inhaled Made from the lowly castor bean, ricin causes respiratory and organ failure, followed by death within hours. Even chewing a few beans can kill you. Anthrax inhaled Cutaneous exposure can kill, but the most deadly, panic-inspiring form of anthrax is inhaled.

Sarin inhaled Sarin is one of the deadliest nerve gases, hundreds of times more toxic than cyanide. Originally synthesized for use as a pesticide, it was outlawed as a warfare agent in Tetrodotoxin ingested Found in the organs of puffer fish the famous Japanese delicacy fugu , tetrodotoxin persists even after the fish is cooked. If the toxin is consumed, paralysis and death can strike within six hours.

Up to five Japanese die from badly prepared fugu every year. Cyanide ingested or inhaled Cyanide exists in a number of lethal forms that are present in nature or easily manufactured.