51.   Officials ordered that rat poison be distributed last weekend on a scale unseen in a decade, Xinhua said.

52.   Rat poison was detected on the outside of one can, but the exact cause of the illnesses was not detected, said Francois Muguet, a state prosecutor.

53.   Reports have emerged of people being killed by stepping on electric traps and of children dying from eating cakes or candies laced with rat poison.

54.   Shards dipped in rat poison.

55.   Some said they were carrying rat poison to kill themselves if they were sent home.

56.   Teresita Izquierdo said she found her brother in a bathroom Thursday after he said he had swallowed rat poison, stabbed and cut himself and planned to electrocute himself.

57.   Thallium, used as a rat poison, is absorbed by fatty tissue in the body and causes nerve deterioration, hair loss and kidney failure.

58.   The arsenic, common in rat poison, was discovered after Deborah Pignataro was hospitalized with numbness, vomiting and other symptoms.

59.   The extortion attempt took place in mid-December, when three jelly jars laced with rat poison were found on store shelves in northern Germany.

60.   The government did spot checks of panettone taken off store shelves after ANSA got the two poisoned ones on Thursday night and they tested positive for rat poison.