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Everything You Need To Know About Ricin, The Poison Mailed To President Obama
• http://www.popsci.com, By Dan NosowitzIn the meantime, let's talk about ricin!
How poisonous is it?
Oh, man. Very. It's dangerous in just about any way it gets into your system, though ingesting (eating) it is about the least dangerous way. Injecting or inhaling requires about a thousand times less ricin to kill a human than ingesting, and that's a very small amount indeed. An average adult needs only 1.78mg of ricin injected or inhaled to die; that's about the size of a few grains of table salt--which ricin resembles visually.