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  • Harvard: Lab workers poisoned by tainted coffee

    10/25/2009 3:53:18 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 27 replies · 1,363+ views
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    BOSTON (AP) -- Six Harvard University medical researchers were poisoned in August after drinking coffee that was laced with a chemical preservative, according to university officials. In an internal memo first reported in the Boston Herald's Sunday editions, the school said the coffee came from a machine near their lab that later tested positive for sodium azide, a common preservative used in labs.