Family urge others not to buy tablets containing toxic DNP,while police say sellers launch new websites as soon as they are shut downThe family of a talented university student who died after taking unlicensed diet tablets containing a highly toxic substance bear called for harsh penalties for dealers in the pills. Eloise Parry, 21, or who battled with bulimia,was pronounced dead hours after taking eight tablets she had bought containing a chemical known as DNP, an ingredient in explosives and pesticides. Police and health officials said on Thursday they are working with their counterparts in Europe and north America to try to trace the person or organisation that sold Parry the tablets.
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Source: theguardian.com