I know that a lot of you out there are probably not too familiar with or indeed interested in Hitler’s deputy and I suspect I probably would have felt exactly the same if it hadn’t been for my father’s “connection”.

In China’s latest case of mass lead poisoning, at least 600 people have been sickened, including 103 children, from tinfoil processing workshops located in Zhejiang province in the eastern part of the country.

Have you ever eaten something, then gotten a terrible headache then begun throwing up? No doubt you’ve experienced ptomaine poisoning.

You really haven’t ingested ptomaine, that’s just the old fashioned name for it. What you have done is taken into your body food in a state of decomposition.

Although not usually life threatening, it is anything but pleasant. Most people get it from mayonnaise and items in which mayonnaise is used.

Mayonnaise is one of those items you ‘just opened’ and it goes ‘bad.’