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Coffee kills
Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020628-02
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The effect coffee has on human health has been the focus of considerable debate, but it is generally accepted that drinking a few cups a day won't harm most people. However, for certain garden molluscs it seems the opposite is the case. In 27 June Nature, Robert Hollingsworth and colleagues at US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Hawaii, show that high concentrations of caffeine are lethal to slugs and snails (Nature 2002, 417:915-916).
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