Man dies hours after eating chili sauce

Published: Sept. 29, 2008 at 10:55 AM

LONDON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Toxicology tests are being conducted to determine whether a super hot chili sauce was responsible for the death of a British man.

Aspiring chef Andrew Lee, 33, of Eddington, West Yorkshire, was found dead the morning after he and a friend competed to see who could create the spiciest sauce and then eat it, The Times of London reported Monday.

The newspaper says Lee made the tomato sauce with red chilies grown in his father's garden.

"He apparently got into bed at 2:30 a.m. and started scratching all over," said Lee's sister, Claire Chadbourne. "Who would have thought he could have died from eating chili sauce? We don't know of anything else that could have caused his death."

An inquest established that Lee was in perfect health and had just passed a medical examination for his job as a fork-lift truck driver.

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