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While working in a laboratory of the Chemical Faculty of the University of Poznan, a fifth-year female student was lethally poisoned due to the inhalation of vapours and skin absorption of the ethyl ester of monofluoroacetic acid.
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Ròzanski, L., Wachowiak, R. (1987). Head-Space and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Techniques in the Diagnosis of Lethal Poisoning with Ethyl Ester of Fluoroacetic Acid. In: Piemonte, G., Tagliaro, F., Marigo, M., Frigerio, A. (eds) Developments in Analytical Methods in Pharmaceutical, Biomedical, and Forensic Sciences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3526-7_18
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