http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Cancer_Kits_Alarm 2026-05-06T10:39:21Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.33.0 http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php?title=Cancer_Kits_Alarm&diff=30716&oldid=prev 2022-02-26T14:41:58Z

<p>Created page with &quot;{{article | publication = The Sunday People | file = 1970-05-24 Sunday People.jpg | px = 250 | height = | width = | date = 1970-05-24 | author = | pages = 10 | language = E...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{article<br /> | publication = The Sunday People<br /> | file = 1970-05-24 Sunday People.jpg<br /> | px = 250<br /> | height = <br /> | width = <br /> | date = 1970-05-24<br /> | author = <br /> | pages = 10<br /> | language = English <br /> | type = <br /> | description = <br /> | categories = merchandise<br /> | moreTitles = <br /> | morePublications = <br /> | moreDates = <br /> | text = <br /> OLD CHEMICAL warfare detector kits with a cancer-producing substance still In them have been on sale to schoolboys. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> Now police have alerted schools and shopkeepers to watch out for the dangerous material, yellow tablets of the chemical Dianisid:ne. <br /> <br /> One boy at Kidlineton bought a kit containing one of the tablets as a &quot;Dr. Who Outfit.&quot; Police recovered it from him. <br /> <br /> A tube full of recovered tablets has been sent to the Office forensic science laboratory at Aldermaston. <br /> <br /> An official there said last night: &quot;Dianisidine is an substance: one of a class of compounds known to be carcinogenic (cancer causing).&quot; <br /> <br /> The Chemical Defence establishment at Porton Down, Dorset, later confirmed that the tablets received at Aldermaston came from old chemical warfare detection kits.<br /> }}</div>

John Lavalie