- The artificial sweetener aspartame, contained in products like Nutrasweet©, Equal© and many diet colas, causes a wide variety of ailments.
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- Bananas from Costa Rica are infected with 'flesh-eating' bacteria that cause necrotizing fasciitis.
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- A young woman becomes an unwitting incubator for 'mud shrimp' after sexual experimentation with a lobster.
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- Microwaving food in plastic containers or wrapped in plastic cling wrap releases harmful chemicals into the food.
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- An over-the-counter medication, phenylpropanolamine (PPA), commonly used in diet and cold medicines has been recalled by the Food and Drug Administration.
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- Villains are using a drug called 'Progesterex' to render their victims helpless and then rape them. Progesterex also has the side effect of sterilizing the victims.
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- You can catch a fatal disease by drinking from soda cans that have been contaminated with rat urine.
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- Some tampons contain asbestos, toxic dioxins and other harmful substances.
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