Health studies have found that 98% of their children have high levels of cadmium in their blood, and two-thirds suffer from lead poisoning.
The momentum for change on abortion laws has intensified since the Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar died from blood poisoning after a Galway hospital refused to terminate her pregnancy last autumn.
Many women are forced to resort to cheap and unsafe means of abortion such as self-inflicted torture, self-poisoning and inserting sharp objects, like knitting needles, into the vagina.
Davide Pugliese, the chef who served up our best meal at the excellent Brandywine Bay restaurant on Tortola, warns that tropical fish poisoning, or ciguatera, can be caught from predatory fish caught around local reefs.
"With ragwort poisoning, there is no cure and the only effective prevention is elimination of the plants," RSPCA inspector Nick Welch.
It is the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK, making about 280,000 people ill each year and causing about 100 deaths.
Asda has expressed its disappointment after it topped a supermarket league table for the presence of the food-poisoning bug campylobacter in fresh chickens.
Although Kara-Murza's father ruled out deliberate poisoning, colleagues had expressed doubts about the sudden illness, which comes after the killing of Nemtsov and reported pressure on opposition activists.
The US and the Soviet Union were in danger of poisoning the world in the 1950s through atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.
"If that doesn't happen then, in effect, what we're doing is a slow-burner food poisoning through all of this sugar that goes on to cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease".
The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has admitted that a Tesco director who is also a former head of the Food Standards Agency contacted the government this summer to argue against FSA plans to publish food poisoning contamination rates for chicken in each supermarket chain.
