legaleagle_45
Silver Member
no one seemed interested when i possted it
Seems you and I may be the only ones.
The preliminary test for Ricin is notoriously unrelaible.
Leitenberg said he was hard pressed to remember any case when an initial chemical test that showed the presence of ricin actually turned out to be ricin. Nearly every time it is a false alarm. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there's a rapid detection test for ricin that takes 6 to 8 hours, but the more complete test the ricin toxin test takes about 48 hours to perform and the availability of cultured cells to do the test could be a problem getting it done that fast. That second test is "considered the best test for determining the presence of ricin," the CDC said in a fact sheet on ricin.
Ricin: A bioterror agent with few real victims