₦airaland Forum

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In 1978, the United States Brewers Association (USBA) informed the FDA that German researchers had reported finding low levels of dimethylnitrosamine (DMNA) in malt beer. The FDA and USBA each surveyed beers and other malt beverages available in the United States and reported similar findings. Based on information from the Germans and subsequent investigations by the USBA, it is apparent that DMNA formation occurs principally during the kilning (drying) of sprouted barley used in the production of barley malt. The barley malt is then used in the wort for making beer and other malt beverages.

N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), also known as dimethylnitrosamine (DMN), is a semi-volatile organic chemical, produced as by-product of several industrial processes and present at very low levels in certain foodstuffs, especially those cooked, smoked, or cured. NDMA is water-soluble, yellow in color, and has little or no taste and odor. It is toxic to the liver and other organs and is a probable human carcinogen. It is also used to create cancer in rats for cancer research.

Several incidents in which NDMA was used to intentionally poison another person have garnered media attention. In 1978, a teacher in Ulm, Germany was sentenced to life in prison for trying to murder his wife by poisoning jam with NDMA and feeding it to her. Both the wife and the teacher later died from liver failure.[11][12]

Used as a Poison in Two High Profile Cases
In 1978, Steven Roy Harper spiked lemonade with NDMA at the Johnson family home in Omaha, Nebraska. The incident resulted in the deaths of 30-year-old Duane Johnson and 11-month-old Chad Shelton. [13] For his crime, Harper was sentenced to death but committed suicide in prison before his execution could be carried out.[14]

In the 2013 Fudan poisoning case, Huang Yang, a postgraduate medical student at Fudan University, was the victim of a poisoning in Shanghai, China. Huang was poisoned by his roommate Lin Senhao, who had placed NDMA into the water cooler in their dormitory. Lin claimed that he only did this as an April Fool's joke. He received a death sentence and was executed in 2015.[15]

DMNA has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals and a level of safety cannot be established. The agency has determined that it is necessary to minimize human exposure to the lowest practical level. This level was determined to be 5 ppb DMNA, based on the analytical limit and the extent to which DMNA can be reduced in malt beverages by good manufacturing practices. Beverages containing more than 5 ppb DMNA may be considered to be a toxin.

Amazingman:
Well that dmna does not work in a home based naija dna

RIHMEEK:
Bro it does is just that autopsy are not usually carried out when someone dies in naija unless the person died in a suspicious manner.. If autopsies are carried out u will be shocked on what is killing the average Nigerian