More ricin
Mar. 21st, 2003 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ewx...this time in Paris. Law enforcement seems to manage remarkable success in finding the stuff; it makes me whether they're just being lucky, or whether there's just lots of it around. Or perhaps it just makes the news more now...
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Date: 2003-03-21 01:19 am (UTC)Perhaps they've got hospitals notifying them of people with relevant symptoms then l-)
...more likely, one of the precursors is sufficiently obscure that it's worth making purchaes of it notifiable.
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Date: 2003-03-21 01:33 am (UTC)The precursors are castor oil beans, and acetone. You can't buy castor oil beens in UK garden centres any more, my gardening contacts tell me. But as you only need a smallish quantity - a small bag - it's going to e hard to completely control supply.