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Panthenol (also called pantothenol) is the alcohol analog of pantothenic acid (vitamin B 5), and is thus a provitamin of B 5. In organisms, it is quickly oxidized to pantothenic acid. It is a viscous transparent liquid at room temperature. Panthenol is used in pharmaceutical and children's products as a moisturizer and to hasten wound healing.
Candies such as candy corn were regularly sold in bulk during the 19th century. Later, parents thought that pre-packaged foods were more sanitary. Claims that candy was poisoned or adulterated gained general credence during the Industrial Revolution, when food production moved out of the home or local area, where it was made in familiar ways by known and trusted people, to strangers using ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — They’re a Halloween tradition: brightly colored little bits of milk chocolate with familiar brand names, and they’re all packed with sugar. So we wanted to find out ...
Since Halloween's inception in the 1840s, reports of poisoned candy have become as synonymous with Oct. 31 as dressing up in costumes or carving pumpkins.. While reports of tainted candy and other ...
Some organizations around the United States and Canada sponsor a "trunk-or-treat" on Halloween night (or, on occasion, a day immediately preceding Halloween, or a few days from it, on a weekend, depending on what is convenient). Trunk-or-treating is done from parked car to parked car in a local parking lot, often at a school or church.
Halloween can be a lot of fun for the whole family, but it is also a time for parents to be extra cautious. Beyond the spooky costumes, a couple of factors make Halloween scary: The number of kids ...
Ronald Clark O'Bryan (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man, The Man Who Killed Halloween and The Pixy Stix Killer, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (April 5, 1966 – October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing.
By EMILY CEGIELSKI Two years ago, Amanda Chapman needed an outlet. It was August 2012, and her husband had just been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. The bad news was ...