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The patient was a female Viennese matchstick maker who had been exposed to the phosphorus vapors over a five-year period. [10] [11] He named the disease "Phosphorimus chronicus". [3] In 1844 Lorinser reported 22 cases of phossy jaw and established the toxic effects of white phosphorus in matchsticks. [12]
Anjette Lyles, American restaurateur responsible for the poisoning deaths of four relatives between 1952–1958 in Macon, Georgia, apprehended on May 6, 1958, and sentenced to death, yet later was involuntary commitmented due to her diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenic, died aged 52 on December 4, 1977 at the Central State Hospital ...
CDC medical epidemiologist Dr. Michael Lynch said the last such U.S. case dates to the 1970s. The roughly 25 cases reported each year were mainly from home canned foods. [61] [64] Salmonella from Peter Pan and Great Value Peanut Butter (both manufactured by ConAgra) in 44 states. By March 7, 2007, the outbreak had grown to 425 cases in 44 ...
2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in spinach: E. coli O157:H7: spinach: Dole Foods [19] >205 [19] 3 [23] 2024 2024 Canadian listeriosis outbreak: Listeria: nut milk: Silk and Great Value: 20 [24] 3 [24] Listeria contamination in various nut milk products led to at least 20 cases of listeriosis, including 3 deaths in Ontario between ...
[citation needed] He used about 1,500 US gallons (5,700 L) of urine [4] to produce just 120 grams of phosphorus. If he had ground up the entire residue he could have obtained many times more than this (1 litre of adult human urine contains about 1.4g of phosphorus salts, which amounts to around 0.11 grams of pure white phosphorus).
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Phosphorus is a finite (limited) resource that is widespread in the Earth's crust and in living organisms but is relatively scarce in concentrated forms, which are not evenly distributed across the Earth. The only cost-effective production method to date is the mining of phosphate rock, but only a few countries have significant commercial reserves.