Showing posts with label Topical cases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Topical cases. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 February 2008

Another fatality...

Another probable CO-related death, in London, as reported this morning on the BBC News website.
The BBC call it a 'carbon monoxide leak', which is unusual terminology.

Sunday, 8 April 2007

An unusual side-effect of CO.

This recent post on prnewswire.com lists an unusual consumer danger from CO. It is apparently sometimes used to make packaged meat appear 'fresher' (i.e. pinker) than it really is!

You can see a warning video animation about this here.

Friday, 17 November 2006

Cases in the news

This post will be updated periodically with cases currently in the headlines.

As of November 16th 2006, Crookhill Primary School in Gateshead remains closed following a suspected spillage of CO from three boilers situated under a classroom. The school was initially evacuated on November 14th.