POISONOUS COLOURING MATTER.
At Feiiding, recently, several persons were poisoned after partaking of some raspberry syrup. An analysis of the syrup points to the presence of arzenic, and the Analyst is strougly of opinion that it was arsenic in the essence of raspberry in the form of arseniate of rose-aniline, which must have been used for the purpose of giving colouring and flavour to the syrnp.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 4 January 1896, Page 7
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