At least 10 students had to be taken to the emergency room after coming into contact with a spicy chewing gum while at elementary school in western Massachusetts.
"It was something that you see in, like, a horror movie," one parent told a local TV station. "Honestly, it just kind of felt like these kids had been under attack."At least 10 students had to be taken to the emergency room after coming into contact with a spicy chewing gum while at elementary school in western Massachusetts, according to the local fire department."It was something that you see in, like, a horror movie.
“This is not for wimpy people, elderly, children, pets or people with heart conditions and excessive sweating problems,” the product description reads. “ All pepper extracts should be handled with extreme caution. Pepper extract is know to cause sever reactions including pain, vomiting, diarrhea, prolonged cramps, and more. Know your limit and Consider yourself warned.”
WWLP reports the Orange School District superintendent said officials are investigating and they will take disciplinary action. " chewing gum that contains the same active ingredient as police pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum. Police level pepper spray is normally rated to 1 to 2 million Scoville heat units," the post. The Scoville scale is a means to measure heat in chili peppers and other materials. The online listing for the gum shows several large warnings on the packaging and describes the gum as having 16 million Scoville units in each piece.
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