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[Closed] Whoa - anyone buy a bracelet from the Eden Project (or elsewhere) like this!
Email from school;
[i]We have received an alert regarding the sale of the following bracelets that have been on sale at Eden
Project in Cornwall and another 36 retailers across the UK; urging customers to return the red and black
bracelets made from the Jequirity bean, the deadly seed of the plant abrus precatorious. It contains the toxin
abrin, a controlled substance under the Terrorism Act that if swallowed can kill in doses of just 3 micrograms.
Abrin is chemically similar to ricin, a chemical warfare agent. People who have bought the bracelets are
being urged to bag them and then wash their hands and avoid touching their eyes. The Eden Project alone
sold 2,800 bracelets over a year. I If you attend a patient known to have been in contact with one of these
bracelets please treat as per poisonous substances and be aware of the imminent risk to the patient.[/i]
http://coffeecurls.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/poisonous-bracelet-warning-please-rt/
Without even bothering to follow the link or check any further I'm about 98% sure this will turn out to be a hoax.
Hoax? Nah, it's guaranteed fact. It's in the Daily Mail and everything.
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With enough of those beans you could make a lovely casserole ...
meh, just go the market and get some castor beans.
It's on the Eden Project website ...
[url= http://www.edenproject.com/product-recall-strung-seed-bracelet ]http://www.edenproject.com/product-recall-strung-seed-bracelet[/url]
Yep okay. Clicking through to the Eden Project website shows it's not a hoax - just a mass of dramatic hyperbole and overstatement. ๐
Looks like a bracelet made of dried ladybirds!