13 Sep 2012

Science: Toxicology

From Nights, 8:40 pm on 13 September 2012
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Dr Leo Schep from the NZ National Poisons Centre about substances taken internally or applied externally that are injurious to health or dangerous to life... diethylene glycol toxicity (used in brake fluids) and its association with a famous inadvertent mass poisoning that occurred in the 1930s.

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