Cancer Kits Alarm
- Publication: The Sunday People
- Date: 1970-05-24
- Author:
- Page: 10
- Language: English
OLD CHEMICAL warfare detector kits with a cancer-producing substance still In them have been on sale to schoolboys.
The kits were auctioned by the Ministry of Defence at Bicester, Oxfordshire, Ordnance Depot, and found their way into surplus stores in the Oxford area.
Now police have alerted schools and shopkeepers to watch out for the dangerous material, yellow tablets of the chemical Dianisid:ne.
One boy at Kidlineton bought a kit containing one of the tablets as a "Dr. Who Outfit." Police recovered it from him.
A tube full of recovered tablets has been sent to the Office forensic science laboratory at Aldermaston.
An official there said last night: "Dianisidine is an substance: one of a class of compounds known to be carcinogenic (cancer causing)."
The Chemical Defence establishment at Porton Down, Dorset, later confirmed that the tablets received at Aldermaston came from old chemical warfare detection kits.
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