Reply #29: no problemo

[timo]

I understand it does sound weird but here ya go

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&sqi=2&ve...






http://www.jkscience.org/archive/volume31/Aluminium%20p...
Abstract
Aluminium phosphide is one of the commonest poisons used for suicides in northern parts of India. A study has been conducted on the cases of aluminium phosphide poisoning brought for autopsy at the mortuary of U.C.M.S. & G.T.B. Hospital, Delhi. It was observed that males are commonly involved than females. Incidence is more common during 3rd decade of life and is rarely used for homicidal purposes.

http://toxipedia.org/display/wlt/Suicides+from+Pesticid...

Estimates for pesticide suicides in South East Asia are dominated by patterns of suicide in India (SE Asia mortality stratum D), whose population (1,050 million) accounts for 81% of the 1,293 million people living in stratum-D of the region. Official data for 2005 suggest that 19.6% (n = 22,327) of India's 113,914 officially recorded suicides were self-poisonings with insecticides<58>. A particular feature of self-poisoning in northern India is the frequent ingestion of aluminium phosphide, a fumigant used to protect grain stores, with an associated case fatality in excess of 70% <12>. The WHO estimate that 55% of suicides in Bangladesh (SE Asia-D), the third most populous country in this region (population 144 million), are by self-poisoning<59>. Data from other sources indicate that a large proportion of these fatal poisonings are pesticide ingestions<60,61>. Our estimates for stratum-D are based on official suicide statistics from India<58> and, using data presented in Table 2, an estimated range in the proportion of suicides that employ pesticides in India of 20% to 30%.





we used to use it in grain storage bins its stinks to high heavens of garlic/chemical smells, I cant even imagine drinking or eating it!!