Poison Flour
The 24th of January in '76 Jamaica was shocked as 13 people died in the eastern parish of St. Thomas after eating flour subsequently found to have been contaminated with the poison parathion.(1) Parathion a very potent insecticide was found being up to the levels of 1% in the flour. It totaled to 79 poisonings and 13 deaths. The flour was probably contaminated while being stored next to insecticides in a European warehouse.(2)
The incident was covered by many artists (mainly deejays) with songs such as Dr Alimantado's »Poison Flour« and Jah Lloyd's »Killer Flour« (with Bingy Bunny)
List of Songs
| Artist |
Titel |
Comment |
| Dr. Alimantado |
Poison Flour |
|
| Jah Lloyd & Bingy Bunny |
Killer Flour |
|
| Naggo Morris |
Flour Power |
|
| Derrick Morgan |
Flour Dumpling |
|
| Dillinger |
Flour Dumpling Kill A Man |
|
| Jackie Brown |
Lion Head |
Lion Head was brand of poisonous flour |
Sources
(1) Summarized from ibid., pp.225-9
(2) EPISODES OF ENVIRONMENTAL POISONING WORLDWIDE - Langford and Ferner Occup Environ Med.2002; 59: 855-860
Comments (2)
Anonymous said
at 12:58 pm on Feb 9, 2008
According to the sources I've found the incident happened in January '76. However ... according to RKR the 7" were released in '75. Anyone that can share any light on the subject?
Anonymous said
at 7:05 pm on May 11, 2008
Yes RKR is wrong ;-)
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