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WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The FBI has reportedly issued a terrorist warning concerning the use of such common items as nicotine and potato-spawned salanine as mass poisoning agents.
Fox News reported the bulletin said: "References to nicotine and solanine appear in numerous terrorist training manuals and documents seized in Afghanistan. The most likely technique for nicotine or solanine poisoning would be food, beverage or water contamination."
Acute nicotine poisoning causes central nervous system depression, neuromuscular paralysis, lowered blood pressure, slowed heart rate and death, the FBI said.
Common symptoms of solanine poisoning occur two to 24 hours after exposure and include a harsh, scratchy sensation in the mouth, dehydration and drowsiness. Severe cases include cramps and fever -- and can result in coma and death.
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