A coffee grinder and castor bean seeds procured online were used to create the deadly toxin ricin for a planned Islamic extremist attack on Germany, authorities say. Prosecutors said a 29-year-old ...

The key ingredient – castor beans – is easy to find. Crude instructions for extracting the lethal poison in them can be found on the Internet. And it doesn’t require a chemistry degree or ...

Ricin can be extracted from castor beans and purified in order to make a potent biological weapon You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. A woman was ...

Ricin is a natural, highly toxic compound that is a byproduct of processing castor beans. If inhaled, injected or ingested, less than a pinpoint of ricin can kill a person within 36 to 48 hours due to ...

Made from ordinary castor beans, ricin can be incredibly dangerous and even deadly -- if milled or processed right. The substance is called “very toxic” by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

But what exactly is ricin and why is it so deadly? Ricin is a protein that is found in castor beans. Chewing castor beans--which are grown all over the world--is not a good idea, and the ricin found ...

Experts from Porton Down, the chemical and biological defence establishment, gave evidence from behind screens during Kamel Bourgass's trial about the five poisons described in his recipes. Ricin, the ...

The man has a history of making threats to government agencies. William Clyde Allen, the former Naval officer who was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday for sending crushed castor beans to President ...